International Education

Catalog description

This Advanced Seminar, which is both theoretical and applied, introduces students to issues and institutions involved in international educational development. This course will provide students with a deep understanding of the changing role of educational development projects in light of the post-2015 development agenda, post-financial crisis and global recession, post-Ebola epidemic, and post-Arabic Spring periods. Students will spend time exploring and understanding how these many `post-contexts and settings¿ are changing the nature of development and the educational responses that are now coordinated across different scales and spaces (national, regional, and global levels). With the aid of class readings and paying particular attention to endogenous and exogenous challenges that Africa and the Middle East confront, discussions will be framed through a comparative and international educational perspective that exposes students to how different theories of education and development influence policy, priorities, and programs of international, national, and local institutions in these regions.