Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review is the only journal on global education published in the island of Ireland. It features contributions from practitioners in a range of education settings based in Ireland, the United Kingdom, across Europe, North America and the developing world. It is in its fifth year of operation, and is now available as an open-access online publication to increase accessibility and global reach. It aims to widen the global education sector’s understanding of the delivery and effectiveness of development education at local and international levels.
5The Changing Landscape of Development Education
Autumn 2007
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Over the past decade the development education (DE) sector has undergone a process of change that has strengthened its policy framework and consolidated its shift from the periphery to the centre of mainstream education provision. In the mid-1990s, practitioners debated development education’s position in mainstream delivery and its capacity to address key learning needs within formal and non-formal education. That debate seems far removed from today’s more dynamic framework for delivery.
Since 1997, the British government has published three White Papers on international development that made explicit reference to the need for strengthened awareness raising across civil society and, in 2006, the Irish government published its first White Paper on international development. Note the similarities in the messages contained in their policy statements on development education. The British government says that...
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