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NORRAG meeting within the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) in Istanbul, 14-18 June 2010
NORRAG has on a number of occasions, including in Paris, Cape Town and Prague, organised piggy-back meetings within the World Congress. In the next World Congress, NORRAG is organising, as in Oxford, a session within the main congress, as well as an opportunity to learn about NORRAG and its partner networks - ERNWACA and RedEtis - on the side of Congress. Please find below the agenda for both sessions.
NORRAG roundtable on
The Future of Aid to Education: emerging actors, trajectories and rationales
3Ds (Defence, Diplomacy, Development)
WCCES – Thematic Group « Educational Governance, Policy Within and Across Borders »
June 17th 2010, 13h30 – 15h00
This roundtable will provide a place for dialogue on the issue of the emerging actors of aid to education. These actors include bilateral donors who do not participate to the DAC, such as India, China, South Africa or Brazil. Emerging actors also include non-bilateral donors such as private foundations, private sector, NGOs or religious actors. The term of emerging actors is not always relevant, as many of these actors have been involved in education and in international cooperation for a long time. However, their contribution is increasingly recognized in the international scene.
This roundtable will address the following questions:
- How different are their approaches and modalities from those of the more traditional DAC donors?
- What can the older donors learn from these newer development partners?
- How are these newer donors perceived in the countries they are supporting?
Participants:
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Chair: Michel Carton (NORRAG)
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Claudia Jacinto (RedEtis) |
Emerging actors in Latin America |
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Kenneth King (NORRAG) |
Cooperation in education between China and South Africa : South-South ? |
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Hanne Mawhinney (U. of Maryland) |
Interactions between « traditional » and emerging actors : Evidence from the Global Education Initiative |
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Markus Maurer (U. of Zürich) |
The growing influence of employers' associations on training policies in South Asia |
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Mario Novelli (U. of Amsterdam) |
Militarization of educational aid |
Each presenter will have 10 minutes for his/her presentation, followed with a 40 minutes discussion.
NORRAG roundtable on
North-South Networking & International Development Co-operation.
Critical Perspectives on Education and Training from NORRAG, ROCARE & RedEtis
WCCES – Thematic Group « Educational Governance, Policy Within and Across Borders »
June 16th 2010, 13h30 – 15h00
This open Roundtable offers an opportunity for WCCES Conference participants to learn about and contribute to the debates on the role of specialist networks in the critical analysis of aid (NORRAG), the promotion of regional co-operation in research, publication and capacity building (ROCARE), and the dissemination of the latest information on regional trends in skills development (RedEtis).
These three networks have all been sustained for some twenty years in different forms. They have recently (2009) decided to explore the potential of closer cooperation amongst a network based in Europe (NORRAG), one based in West and Central Africa (ROCARE), and one based across the whole of Latin America. The decision to collaborate more closely raises all the issues of the Politics of Partnership critically analysed in NORRAG NEWS 41 (www.norrag.org). These include issues about different working languages, financial challenges of face-to-face rather than virtual networking, and questions of symmetry and asymmetry in access to resources.
Most WCCES participants are members of multiple networks, and we therefore expect some robust contributions in this debate about the role of networks in the analysis and promotion of development.