‘Give Me Liberty, or Give Me . . . Nice, New, Shiny Things’: Global Development Aid Education in Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-336
Author(s):  
John Buchanan ◽  
Meera Varadharajan
Keyword(s):  
Development Aid ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Empathic Response ◽  
Shared Humanity

In a world where we are being confronted with seemingly ever more distressing images of our inability or unwillingness to exercise and extend our humanity to one another, this paper discusses global development aid, and how education, and, more specifically, syllabus and policy documents, can contribute to a more informed and empathic response to people who see through eyes different from our own. This paper discusses curricular initiatives, to enhance students’ understanding and responses to issues of global inequalities. The paper embeds this discussion within an examination of elements shaping minds and hearts with regard to such issues, and on impediments to and opportunities for a more informed and humane response to our shared humanity.

scholarly journals Poor understanding? Challenges to Global Development Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
John Buchanan ◽  
Meera Varadharajan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Continuum Model ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Development Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Poor Understanding ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Teacher Education Students

As members of a global community, we cohabit a metaphorically shrinking physical environment, and are increasingly connected one to another, and to the world, by ties of culture, economics, politics, communication and the like. Education is an essential component in addressing inequalities and injustices concerning global rights and responsibilities. The increasing multicultural nature of societies locally, enhanced access to distal information, and the work of charitable organisations worldwide are some of the factors that have contributed to the interest in, and need for, understanding global development education. The project on which this paper reports sought answers to the question: to what extent and in what ways can a semester-long subject enhance and extend teacher education students’ understandings of and responses to global inequalities and global development aid? In the course of the project, a continuum model emerged, as follows: Indifference or ignorance ➝ pity and charity ➝ partnership and development among equals. In particular, this paper reports on some of the challenges and obstacles that need to be addressed in order to enhance pre-service teachers’ understandings of global development education. The study, conducted in Australia, has implications for global development education in other developed nations.

scholarly journals Does China’s Aid in Africa Affect Traditional Donors?

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-215
Author(s):  
Kassaye Deyassa
Keyword(s):  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
Related Development ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Relationship

China’s role as an emerging aid provider and the concept of a social plan in Africa has led to polarised responses in the West. Several say that this “productivist” strategy is much less determined by the concepts of citizenship, legal, social rights, and much more regarding building functions. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the welfare and social policy ideas that characterize Chinese aid in Africa are influencing traditional donors and becoming global. The article utilised a qualitative study that has two main components. First, a comprehensive content analysis of over 50 key Sino-African, Chinese and Western policy documents from 2000 (since cooperation between Beijing and African countries first became institutionalised). Second, there were semi-structured interviews with Chinese, African and Western stakeholders in Addis Ababa, (Ethiopia), who was directly involved in the relationship between China and Africa and related development issues. The result of documentation and interview analyses show that there are currently significant differences between Chinese and Western approaches. China has made much stronger and more explicit links between development aid and economic activity than most Western donors. The aid is usually implemented through specific projects rather than broader programs or policies.

Development Aid in Translation

2020 ◽  
pp. 242-260
Author(s):  
Marija Todorova ◽  
Kathleen Ahrens
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
International Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Development Agencies

This chapter interrogates the translated language used in development aid in terms of its underlying Anglocentric conceptual assumptions as well as in terms of its discursive products. It argues that this export of jargon-specific language has impeded the mission of developmental aid, and it provides a case study to support these arguments. It then discusses two steps that can be taken to facilitate the implementation of development aid practice: (1) directly involve various indigenous and grassroots actors in the translation process and (2) enhance sensitivity to the linguistic and cultural context of the host locale. Integrating these suggestions into ongoing policy creation would enable development agencies, international nongovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations in general to create more comprehensible policy documents and provide more relevant and useful practices for the local communities.

scholarly journals Sustaining Precarious Transnational Families: The Significance of Remittances From Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Wells ◽  
Janet McLaughlin ◽  
Andre Lyn ◽  
Aaraon Diaz Mendiburo
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Agricultural Workers ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Seasonal Agricultural Workers ◽  
Family Survival ◽  
Accelerating Flows ◽  
Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program

Accelerating flows of remittances are dwarfing global development aid. Thisstudy deepens our understanding of remittance impacts on the families ofworkers who come to Canada annually for several months under the SeasonalAgricultural Workers Program (SAWP). Interviews with SAWP workers, theirspouses, adult children and teachers in Mexico deepen our understanding of theimpacts of these remittances. They demonstrate thatthe remittances are oftenliterally a lifeline to transnational family survival, allowing them to pay for basicneeds such as shelter, food, and medical care. Yet,at the same time, theraemittances do not allow most of these workers andtheir families to escape deeppoverty and significant precarity, including new forms of precarity generated bythe SAWP. Instead, SAWP remittances help reduce poverty, at least temporarily,to more moderate levels while precarious poverty expands through globalneoliberal underdevelopmen

scholarly journals The Christian Contribution to the Changes of the Development Aid System: The Lutheran Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Kopiec
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Global Structure ◽  
World Federation ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
New Thinking

Unlike the previous decades, the global development aid system is more willing to admit a significant role of faith-based organisations in promoting development thinking and in the distribution of development aid. The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) approach significantly contributes to this new thinking, especially as the theological background, global structures, and long-year experience in diaconal work enable the LWF's experts to make credible and feasible utterances in the field of development aid. The article outlines the meaning and global structure of the development aid and contrasts it with the Lutheran, Christian approach to development. It stresses the significance of the theological background of such terms as sustainability and sustainable development and specific assets ascribed to faith-based organisations. The text synthesizes information and observations from relevant literature on development and selected documents of the LWF.    

The Global Development Race and the Samaritan's Dilemma: Development Aid Discourse in Danish Agriculture, 1960–1970

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUNNAR LIND HAASE SVENDSEN ◽  
GERT TINGGAARD SVENDSEN
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Western Country ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
World War ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Second World

AbstractWhy has ‘development aid’ been donated by so-called developed to under-developed populations since the Second World War? Using discourse analysis, this article provides partial answers to this riddle. First, we suggest that donor motives may be rooted in an ideology of ‘being good’, which, paradoxically, motivates recipients to be helpless – that is, a Samaritan's dilemma. Second, drawing on journal articles published in 1960–70, we test this theory by tracing a global development discourse and ‘goodness ideology’ in a Western country such as Denmark – a process that was strongly influenced by the agricultural co-operative movement, which sought to export the ‘Danish co-operative model’.

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