250276 International issues in Education (S) (SoSe 2011)

This paper with its two sections, (i) the developmental discourse and (ii) the sectoral paradigms attempts to discuss the Educational issues in the international context. The first section will discuss the trajectories of Development from the Education studies. The next section, the sectoral paradigm will be on the policy, planning management and administration aspects of Education.

The Developmental discourse:
The Human Capital Approach
--Un-employability and Education
--Human Resource Development (HRD)
The Human Development (HD) School (Haq & Sen)
The Capability Approach (Sen & Nussbaum)
--Class analyses and Social Capital
--Implications for the Poverty & Hunger;

The ‘sectoral paradigms’:
Educational Policy trajectories & analyses;
--Educational Planning (School Mapping; Micro vs Macro planning);
--Educational Management & Administration
LPG in Education (Liberalization, Privatization & Globalization);
State vs non-state actors in Education; Globalization: An offshoot between the contestations of the cultural nationalism & the homogenizing model of marketisation;

As the structure of the syllabus is tentative, it may include few related topics for the discussion (like the decentralization).

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen, notwendige Vorkenntnisse

The mode of instruction will be only in English (with special examples from India);
The list of references and materials for each topic will be provided to the students through email;

Master of Arts: Voraussetzung ist die Zulassung zum Master of Arts Erziehungswissenschaft