A-801 Section 4October 3, 2012

Education and Development and

Education as a Human Right

Situating Ourselves in the Course (2 minutes) Discussion of Friday’s lecture: the World Values Survey

(15 minutes) GMR (15 minutes)

Paper 1 Questions (10 minutes) Housekeeping (5 minutes)

Agenda

1• Introduction to Comparative and International Education

2• The Process of Policy Analysis

3• Education Policy Options

Course Overview

1• Introduction to Comparative and International Education

Course Overview

– Week 1 – The Purpose of comparison. What is comparative education? What is international education?

– Week 2 – What is education policy?

– Week 3 – Comparative and cross-national Studies

– Week 4 – Education and Development and Education as a Human Right

– Week 5 – Current Global Education Issues

What framework(s) inform the way you understand the role of

education in national development?

EconomistAnthropologistSocial JusticeHuman Rights

“This association has been founded in order to help social scientists and policy-makers better understand worldviews and changes that are taking place in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world.” (Values Change the World brochure)

“The WVS has over the years demonstrated that people’s beliefs play a key role in economic development” (Wikipedia: World Values Survey)

The World Values Survey

“The Traditional/Secular-rational values dimension reflects the contrast between societies in which religion is very important and those where it is not.” (Values Change the World brochure)

(Survival to Self-Expression Countries) “Their priorities have shifted from an overwhelming emphasis on economic and physical security toward increasing emphasis on subjective well-being, self-expression and quality of life.” (Values Change the World brochure)

The World Values Survey

WVS Over Time

1999-2004 2005-2008

Jin-Sol and Tyler’s Presentation

EFA predates MDGs Established in 1990 in Jomtien, Thailand Development in the 1980 was all about short

term economic development, so the 1990 Jomtien conference was a response

The EFA Global Monitoring Report

Chapter 1: The Fix EFA Goals Goal 1: Expand Early Childhood Care and Education Goal 2: Provide free and compulsory primary education for all Goal 3: Promote learning and life skills for young people and

adults Goal 4: Increase adult literacy by 50 per cent Goal 5: Achieve gender parity by 2005, gender equality by

2015 Goal 6: Improve the quality of education

The EFA Global Monitoring Report

Paper Format

• Times New Roman, size 12 font in black ink• Double-spaced• 1” margins on all sides (top, bottom, left right)• APA format including• Title page• Running head• Use APA in-text citations, as well as APA Bibliography

• Cite every claim you make that is not common knowledge• Word documents, not PDFs!

Turning in Your Paper

• Put your student ID on the paper, not your name.• Put all of the student IDs of the members of the group that

you worked with.• Only submit one paper• Paper are turned in via dropbox on the course isite (on the

“Assignments” tab)

Turning in Your Paper

• Save your file:HUID_Country or Region_Issue

For example:12345678_Thailand_GirlsEducation

Or12345678&234567890_LatinAmerica_PrimaryQuality

Housekeeping

• Reading groups• Showing up to class on time• Office Hours