Development education: from the margins to the mainstream

• Autores: Douglas Bourn
• Localización: Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación Global y para el Desarrollo, ISSN 2254-1845, Nº. 1, 2012
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Development education has been a feature of educational practice in most industrialised countries for over 30 years. It has gone under different names at different times and in also variations due to linguistic interpretations. These terms have included education for development, of global education, global citizenship, themes such as the global dimension in education, or more recently global learning. This article will outline the evolution of development education and its relationship to these other terms. It will demonstrate why this area of education has emerged and what are its distinct features. It will conclude by suggesting that development education could potentially be seen as more than just another  ‘adjectival education’ or as just a response to desire for support to development but also as an approach that has connections to critical pedagogy.