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ERIC Number: EJ663410
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
International Aid Agencies, Learner-Centred Pedagogy and Political Democratisation: A Critique.
Tabulawa, Richard
Comparative Education, v39 n1 p7-26 Feb 2003
Since 1989, international aid agencies have shown a marked interest in and preference for learner-centered pedagogy. This change follows a shift in agency ideology from modernization theory to neoliberalism, which sees democratic social relations as a prerequisite to free-market capitalism. Thus, the pedagogy represents a process of Westernization disguised as value-free, effective teaching. Examples from Botswana are given. (Contains 66 references.) (SV)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Capitalism, Democracy, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Ideology
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Botswana; International Aid; Learner Centered Instruction; Neoliberalism