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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