Publication typology: Digital scientific jornal

Publisher: Centre for Global Education

Author(s): Various

Language: English

Publication date: Spring 2023

Pages: 221

Acess:
https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-36/development-education-and-democracy

Presentation

Issue 36 of Policy and Practice: A Development Education review, published in the spring of 2023, was dedicated to the theme of Development Education and Democracy. In its 221 pages one can find distinct contributions, which comprise:

• 6 thematic focus articles, mostly framed in the context of neoliberalism’s erosion of democratic spaces and institutions;
• 1 perspectives article focused on practice which explored the use of Sustainable Development Goals in higher education;
• 2 Viewpoint articles (opinion pieces), one on critical pedagogy and one that explores how can we learn from the Cuban model of development over the past 60 years;
• 4 books reviews.

As the editorial explains, Issue 36 is highly interconnected with the previous issue dedicated to the neoliberal “Economic Paradigm” and with the issue that followed (37), on “Frontlines of Activism”. In fact, the three topics – democracy, neoliberalism and activism – intersect at different levels and in varying contexts in Issue 36. Several arguments are presented from: the need to re-claim democracy from the jaws of fascism; to critically interrogate the concept of democracy as an enabler of Eurocentrism and “colonial/modern forms of oppression”; and to re-calibrate democracy as an agent of grassroots, community activism essential to resisting top-down “development” perpetuating “the unequal and unjust distribution of resources and opportunities”.

Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review is a biannual (Spring and Autumn), peer reviewed, open access, online journal published by the Centre for Global Education, a non-governmental development organisation based in Belfast and funded by Irish Aid. It aims to celebrate and promote good practice in development education and to debate the shifting policy context in which it is delivered. It provides a space for education practitioners to critically reflect on their practice, share new research and engage in debate with their peers. Each issue of the journal features in-depth contributions on key aspects of development education such as pedagogical innovation, research, methodologies, monitoring and evaluation, the production of resources, enhancing organisational capacity and strategic interventions in education policy. Policy and Practice is informed by values such as social justice, equality and interdependence and is based on the Freirean concept of education as an agent of positive social change.

Policy and Practice has a designated website (www.developmenteducationreview.com) which contains an archive of 39 issues which are available for viewing online and for downloading.  The journal is listed on Scopus (H-Index 2) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).