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Title Africa and international policy making for lifelong learning: textual revelations
Full text http://ahero.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=cshe&action=viewtitle&id=cshe_927
Date 2013
Author(s) Preece, Julia
Abstract This paper discusses the relationship between international agendas for lifelong learning and financial aid for low income countries, especially those on the African continent. It argues that there are subtle differences in terminology written by policymakers respectively in Europe and South Africa for lifelong learning but that international development agendas reinscribe lifelong learning for countries in receipt of development aid. Taking a postcolonial perspective the paper provides a textual analysis of case examples from policy documents in two African countries to demonstrate how international aid priorities negatively affect government choices and policies for lifelong learning, in spite of more regional analyses of the role of education and lifelong learning for the continent&rsquo - s development needs. It argues that the inclusion of indigenous worldviews from the south have potential to enhance a global agenda for the social purpose element of lifelong learning.
Subject(s) Lifelong learning, Development, Developing countries, Policy
Coverage Research
Language English
Publisher Elsevier
Type of publication Journal Article (Peer Reviewed)
Format Pdf
Rights Elsevier Ltd
Repository Cape Town - AHERO, University of Western Cape
Added to C-A: 2014-01-06;10:28:44