The most recent UKFIET-DfID discussion on Post-2015 goals for education, co-convened and hosted by ODI, well captured the richness of the challenges inherent in the larger project of getting education into the goals and sub-goals and protecting the far larger set of educational concerns that cannot be contained within these goals. However, I was struck […]
In the nine sessions of the New Imperatives sub-theme we will be critically examining a number of issues vital to achieving post 2015 learning goals, in classrooms and other learning contexts across the globe – teacher education, early childhood experiences, becoming literate -how and in what language, and developing life skills. Questions that will be […]
This sub-theme seeks to identify the research paradigms – and the values underlying them – that have prevailed in the field of education and development research over the last 15 years, and to consider which research paradigms, conceptualizations of the field, values and ethical approaches might best serve the field beyond 2015. UKFIET Conference Preview […]
A Cautious Welcome The High Level Panel (HLP) Report deserves a cautious welcome on two counts. First, education finds a place in the list of 12 indicative Universal Goals, and recognition – albeit uneven – of its relevance to wider development agendas. This is a relief to those s who have doubted the effectiveness of […]
There were so many papers for the sub-theme on Evidence and Knowledge, that we have created two streams to accommodate them all. The stream on “Including all learners” will explore the current knowledge of how the intersecting dimensions of marginalisation influence access to quality learning opportunities, and evidence of how education systems can be made […]
