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Direct linkChristie, Pam – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
The right to education has an established legacy in international agreements and debates, but has nonetheless proved difficult to achieve across the countries of the world. This paper explores why this might be so. It begins by locating the current architecture of rights in Enlightenment philosophy and the political and legal formations of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Laws
McMillan, Leah K. – International Review of Education, 2010
The end of the Cold War ushered in a paradigmatic shift in international development discourse whereby a human rights-based approach to development was generated. This shift has stimulated the pegging of international development policy to the objectives of the human rights regime. However, in attempting to unify development and human rights…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Definitions, International Education, International Programs
Power, Colin – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2006
Building a strategic direction for education ultimately rests on the extent, to which we resolve the key issue addressed by UNESCO's International Commission on Education for the 21st Century (the Delors Report): what kind of education is needed to create the kind of world, we want to emerge in the future? Certainly, globalisation brings with it…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Educational Planning
Resnik, Julia – Comparative Education Review, 2006
This article has four sections. First, the author presents a theoretical discussion of the different explanations regarding the explosion of education after World War II. She explains how the actor-network theory--a theory of knowledge and of agency--enables people to understand the formation of the education-economic growth black box. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Organizations, Educational History, Economic Development
Hickling-Hudson, A. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2002
This paper uses the device of imagining Education personnel at the World Bank engaging in study and discussion that causes them to rethink their 1999 Education Sector Strategy document. The Bank's educators discuss issues that lead them to see that the World Bank's assumptions of human capital theory are deficient. Having studied the severe…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Educational Change, Sustainable Development, Educational Policy
Tikly, Leon – International Journal of Educational Development, 2003
The aim of the article is to critically consider the implications of the African Renaissance project for skills formation policies and priorities with a focus on the education and training systems of sub-Saharan Africa. The article commences with an account of the origins of the African Renaissance idea and its latest incarnation in the New…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Program Development, Educational Development
