Development as Discourse
What relevance to education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11920110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Robinson-Pant (0000-0003-3989-2272, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-328 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057920120098464 |
| OpenAlex | W2093595325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 18 |
Regarding 'development' as a constructed and contested concept can enable us working in international education to re-examine our assumptions and approaches as 'developers'. Given its theoretical origins in post-modern, post-colonial and feminist thought, the concept of development as discourse implies more than simply 'development speak' and can provide a way into analysing relationships around knowledge and power. Stressing that there are many overlapping discourses, rather than just one Development Discourse, I explore in this paper the insights gained, methods used and constraints faced when using this approach during fieldwork in Nepal. Practical situations like literacy classes or meetings, and texts such as funding proposals or students' writing, illustrate how analysis of development discourses can bring out new dimensions relevant to training and planning. Moving from this micro-level to a wider context, I argue that the ideological dimension of educational planning and policy needs to be recognized and analysed through a focus on discourse. Instead of suggesting that a certain policy succeeds or fails in 'technical' terms, policy makers can then begin to ask different questions which acknowledge the political agendas of the various development players and allow for a greater variety of voices to be heard
Context (archaeology · Dimension (graph theory · Discourse analysis · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Relevance (law · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Engineering and humanitarian intervention
Models of Engaged Scholarship
Lifelong learning and development
Challenging deficit discourses in international education and development
Revisiting the Colonial Grammar of International Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Development, education and gender
Schooling and development
Emancipatory interests of multiple literacies for activism and community transformation
Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh
The rhetoric of return
Writing Culture
Discourse and social change
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
Anthropology and Development
Feminism/Postmodernism
Discourses of Development
Whose Voice
An Anthropological Critique of Development
Reading Development Policy and Policy Analysis
Women and literacy
The social mind
The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal
Under Western Eyes
Critical discourse analysis
Encountering Development
Inventing Social Categories Through Place
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |