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<strong>ZEP</strong>30. Jg. Heft 1 März 2007 Seite 11Doug BournAcademic Support andUnderstanding of DevelopmentEducationZusammenfassung: Der Beitrag leistet zunächst eineBestandsaufnahme der Beschäftigung mit Globalem Lernenbzw. entwicklungspolitischer Bildung im wissenschaftlichenKontext vor und kommt dabei zu dem Ergebnis, dass es zwarim englisch-sprachigen Bereich einige Wissenschaftler undWissenschaftlerinnen gibt, die sich mit diesem Arbeitsbereichbefassen, dass das Thema aber keinen Eingang in denMainstream der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Debattengefunden hat. Ausgehend davon werden die Zielsetzung unddie Forschungsagenda des Research Centre on DevelopementEducation (London-University, Intstitute of Education)dargestellt.Abstract: First of all, this article gives an inventorycontrol of employment with global learning resp. politicaldevelopment education in a scientifi c context with the resultthat there do exist English-speaking scientists that deal withthat working area, but that the subject hasn’t found entry tothe paedagogical mainstream debates. Proceeding from that,the objective target and the research agenda of the ResearchCentre on Development Education (London-University, Instituteof Education) are formed.Development Education and HigherEducationDevelopment education and its related terms of globaleducation and global learning are becoming increasinglywell supported by governments, policy-makers and nongovernmentalorganisations (NGOs) across Europe. Butmost of this activity has been based around the practice ofa range of NGOs. There has been some increasing activitywithin higher education in recent years linked mainly toinfluencing the training of teachers or deepening the studyof development issues across a range of degree courses. Butthere has been no independent body of educational researchin development education.In the UK for example there is a growing network ofacademics interested in development education and globalperspectives. There are a number of institutions that havedeveloped, or are considering initiatives, research centres orprogrammes that relate to global learning. There are researchcentres in areas that link to development education, includinga Centre for Human Rights Education at Roehampton Universityand one on Sustainable Development at PlymouthUniversity. There are a number of individuals and universitieswho have undertaken and are undertaking research under theheading of ‘global education’, including Bath Spa, Leeds,York, Bristol, Leicester and Exeter Universities (Hicks/Scott-Baumann/Clough/Holden 2003). But there is no centre oflearning that has focused specifically on the ‘internationaldevelopment’ aspects of education.These trends are mirrored across Europe, although thereare a number of courses and research groups at a number ofuniversities, including University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,Vienna, Warsaw and Dublin.The consequence of this lack of independent researchfocus on development education is that it has minimal academicprofile. There is for example no academic journal fordevelopment or global education, unlike areas such as environmentaleducation or citizenship education. Where therehas been research, such as Osler and Vincent, it has beenlooking at the relationship of global education to topics suchas citizenship (Osler/Vincent 2004). There have however beena number of conferences in recent years that have begun theprocess of engaging in debates on development and globaleducation and their relationship to learning in a global society(O’Loughlin/Wegimont 2002; 2003).Policy-Makers and Request forEvidenceThe growth in political and educational support for developmenteducation and global perspectives has posed theneed for evidence to justify the value of the funding and itsrelevance. Development education throughout the 1980s and1990s across many countries suffered from being susceptibleto moods and changes in policies from governments.Elections of social democrat led governments often led toincreased resources whilst conservative led governmentsled to reduction in funding (Bourn 2003; Cronkhite 2000;McCollum 1996; Marshall 2005).Since 2000 there has been an increased support across thepolitical spectrum for development education but in mostcountries, funders have increasingly posed the need for

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