ED52028: Education and sustainable development
[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Education |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Literature review (CWES 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit, you will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the relationship between education and sustainable development
2. Critically engage with the tensions within sustainable development and how these shape education policy and practice at the national and global level
3. Recognise the different macro, meso and micro forces in the making of education and international development policies
4. Apply and critique the main theories underpinning education and development policies and practices within different educational contexts and countries, particularly in the Global South
5. Identify and reflect critically on the intended and unintended consequences of different education and international development policies
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| Synopsis: | Critically analyse the relationship between education and sustainable development.
You'll develop your understanding of key theories, policies and practices in different educational contexts and countries, particularly in the Global South.
You'll also explore important challenges, tensions and priorities related to social, environmental and economic development, focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of decolonisation, environmental justice and human rights.
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| Content: | In this unit, the following topic areas will be engaged with:
- Historical overview of education and international development post-1945 through to current day, including key global actors, aspirations, agendas and debates
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), including critiques of notions of sustainability and development.Education and economic development, including economic arguments for investing in education such as 'human capital theory', 'neoliberalism' and 'global competitiveness'
- Education as a human right and in the context of other rights such as linguistic rights
- Indigenous perspectives on education and sustainable living and how these challenge fundamental assumptions of mainstream educational development
- Education, capabilities and social justice: how education can contribute to the development of individual capabilities, the relationship between education and social justice and how learning capabilities could be enhanced
- Education's response to environmental and human crises
- Enduring legacies of colonialism in education and international development, looking at a range of contemporary critical perspectives, such as decolonisation, anticolonialism, racism and the divide between a 'Global North' and a 'Global South'
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| Course availability: |
ED52028 is Compulsory on the following courses:
Department of Education
- THED-AFM70 : MA International Education and Globalisation
ED52028 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- THSP-AFM41 : MSc International Development
- THSP-AWM41 : MSc International Development
- THSP-APM41 : MSc International Development
- THSP-AFM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-AWM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-APM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-AFM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
- THSP-AWM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
- THSP-APM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
- THSP-AFM44 : MSc International Development with Economics
- THSP-AWM44 : MSc International Development with Economics
- THSP-APM44 : MSc International Development with Economics
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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