Book Review: Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World

Balasubramanian, K

Book Review: Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World

dc.contributor.author	Balasubramanian, K
dc.contributor.editor	Gaskell, Anne
dc.coverage.spatial	Global	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-04T19:36:34Z
dc.date.available	2018-12-04T19:36:34Z
dc.date.issued	2018-12
dc.description.abstract	Daniel Wagner’s Learning as development is an important contribution in this area and, as Marlaine Lockheed of the World Bank points out, the volume “humanizes and broadens the discussion of education and development”. Wagner’s book calls for rethinking education and defining its relationship with international development. It calls for moving towards “an agenda that puts human development closer to the center of global ambitions and prioritises learning as the thread that binds each phase of human life into a coherent whole”. // The world has come together and has agreed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be realised by 2030. According to Wagner, the shift from the “economic growth” models to a human and sustainable development approach has necessitated a need to rethink education in the context of international development, particularly with reference to equity vis-à-vis poor and marginalised communities. While lamenting the siloed approach in education, Wagner offers a four interconnected and overlapping quadrant learning framework vis-à-vis learning contexts and learning practices. This framework covers the entire gamut of learning: structured non-formal education, less structured non-formal learning, structured formal education, less structured in-school learning. The conventional educational policies and programmes offered at educational institutions in many developing countries are sectoral and focus exclusively on structured formal education.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v5i3.319
dc.identifier.issn	2311-1550
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11599/3107
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Commonwealth of Learning (COL)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of Learning for Development;vol. 5, no. 3
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/	en_US
dc.source.uri	http://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/319/352	en_US
dc.subject	Learning for Sustainable Development	en_US
dc.title	Book Review: Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US