Education for Sustainable Development in Africa: A Critique of Regional Agendas

Autor/in	Tikly, Leon
Titel	Education for Sustainable Development in Africa: A Critique of Regional Agendas
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Education Review, 20 (2019) 2, S.223-237 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1598-1037
DOI	10.1007/s12564-019-09600-5
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Sustainable Development; Postcolonialism; Social Change; Justice; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Role of Education; Correlation; Global Approach; Economic Change; Transformative Learning; Political Attitudes; Cultural Influences; Educational History; Criticism; Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Post colonialism; Postkolonialismus; Sozialer Wandel; Gerechtigkeit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Bildungsauftrag; Korrelation; Globales Denken; Ökonomischer Wandel; Pädagogische Transformation; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Kritik; Afrika
Abstract	Education is often perceived in policy agendas as playing a transformative role in realising sustainable development and the SDGs on the continent. The assumption is based, however, on an insufficiently critical understanding of the historical role of education in supporting unsustainable development. The article provides a critical account of the relationship between education policy and sustainable development in Africa as an aspect of the postcolonial condition, i.e. as an aspect of the colonial legacy and of Africa's position in relation to contemporary processes of globalisation. It is argued that if education is to play a transformative role in relation to sustainable development then education policy needs to be fundamentally re-oriented and harnessed to wider processes of economic, cultural and political transformation in the interests of social and environmental justice. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01