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Tarabini, Aina; Jacovkis, Judith – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
This paper has two main objectives. First, it aims to analyse the connections between education and poverty established by the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), a central policy tool for the articulation of the Post Washington Consensus. Second, it intends to study how the PRSPs have been consolidated and expanded through different…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Poverty, International Organizations, Models
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Palmer, Robert – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
Against a backdrop of some two decades of sustained economic growth in Ghana, this paper argues that there are a series of sustainability challenges related to technical and vocational skills development (TVSD) that need to be addressed. This paper analyses several sustainability dimensions of TVSD related to: promoting the sustainability of…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Employment, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
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Breidlid, Anders – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
The article's focus is the relationship between culture, indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), sustainable development and education in Africa. It analyzes the concept of sustainability with particular reference to education and indigenous knowledge systems. In particular the article analyzes the documents from the World Summit in Johannesburg in…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Cultural Context
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Little, Angela W.; Green, Andy – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This article examines the role of education in "successful globalisation" and how this links with agendas for sustainable development. In the first part "successful globalisation" is defined as economic growth combined with equality and social peace. Japan and the East Asian tiger economies--particularly South Korea and…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
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Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This article examines Western and Chinese discourses of education, sustainable growth and development. Education is increasingly considered as a means to fuel economic growth, especially since the 1980s, when conservative economic values became predominant in Western development thought. Despite a discourse on sustainability favouring ecologically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Social Systems, Free Enterprise System
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King, Kenneth – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
The global education agenda, embedded in the Education for All (EFA) Goals, and the Millennium Development Goals, has emphasised the importance of reaching EFA rather than sustaining this achievement. As a corollary, the emphasis for external aid has also been on increasing aid to secure EFA rather than on the dangers of aid dependency in securing…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Global Education, Equal Education, International Organizations