The purpose of the International Journal of Educational Development is to foster critical debate about the role that education
plays in development. IJED seeks both to develop new theoretical insights into the education-development relationship and new understandings
of the extent and nature of educational ... click here for full Aims & Scope
The purpose of the International Journal of Educational Development is to foster critical debate about the role that education
plays in development. IJED seeks both to develop new theoretical insights into the education-development relationship and new understandings
of the extent and nature of educational change in diverse settings. It stresses the importance of understanding the interplay of local,
national, regional and global contexts and dynamics in shaping education and development.
Orthodox notions of development as
being about growth, industrialisation or poverty reduction are increasingly questioned. There are competing accounts that stress the
human dimensions of development. The notion of development itself is highly contested, both as a theoretical construct and in its policy
and programme manifestations. Education is prominent in approaches to and critiques of development. Here too perspectives vary. Education
is expected to promote competitiveness and productivity; reduce inequality, poverty and disease; mitigate conflict and crisis; and promote
human capability and achieve social justice. At the same time, education is also criticised for fostering hostility; entrenching difference;
jeopardising local values and culture; and for its own use of control and violence.
The International Journal of Educational
Development is concerned with education in its broadest sense, including informal and non-formal modes, and skills development.
IJED is primarily interested in studies that are focused on lower and middle income settings. It also considers papers that look at
the relationship between education and development in other contexts or at the role that developed countries play in education and development
through their policies and practices of aid and trade.
The International Journal of Educational Development welcomes
papers from all prospective authors and especially from scholars who come from low and middle income countries.
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Simon McGrath
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