As the target year of achieving Education for All development goals approached in 2015, there were discussions about the post-EFA agenda, a process parallel to setting the post-Millennium Development Goals. This transition should not be understood simply as a normative framework. It has coincided with changes in structure, actors, modes of interactions, and practices. The emergence of new types of donors who used to be recipients of aid is changing the landscape of international educational development. Transnational networks of civil society actors gained power to set the discourse at multiple levels, through their global mission-driven and expertise-based advocacy. Advanced communication technologies and broader participation increased the amount of ideas exchanged, while the global governance structure becomes more centralized in its decision making.
Theorizing the Paradigm Shift in Educational Development - Shoko YamadaPART I: POST-EFA DISCOURSE IN THE HISTORICAL, STRUCTURAL, NORMATIVE, AND GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTSEducation for All as a Global Regime of Educational Governance: Issues and Tensions - Leon TiklyPost-EFA Global Discourse: The Process of Shaping the Shared View of the ‘Education Community’ - Shoko Yamada 67Asian Regionality and Post-2015 Consultation: Donors’ Self-Images and the Discourse - Shoko YamadaPART II: PERSPECTIVES FROM ASIA AND PACIFIC: CASES OF TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL DONORSJapanese Educational Aid in Transition: The Challenge to Transform from a Traditional Donor to a New Partner - Shoko Yamada and Kazuhiro YoshidaThe Korean Model of ODA: A Critical Review of Its Concept and Practices Reflected in Educational ODA - Bong Gun ChungPositioning China’s Aid to Educational Development in Africa: Past, Present, and Post-2015 - Changsong Niu and Jing LiuSouth-South Cooperation: India’s Programme of Development Assistance - Nature, Size and Functioning - Jandhyala B. G. TilakThe United States - A “Traditional” Outlier in Transition - James H. WilliamsConclusion - Shoko Yamada
Edited by Shoko Yamada, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan