Development Education at University Level: An Ongoing Process Supported by Structures. The 25 Years Experience in Etea as a Reference (original) (raw)
No more than ten years ago, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation published its first “Master Plan for Spanish development cooperation, 2001-2004”. It described development education as “a set of actions that public authorities, directly or in collaboration with NGO and other actors in ODA, perform in order to promote activities that help to achieve a better perception of society towards the problems facing developing countries, and to encourage solidarity and cooperation with them”. Thanks to the displayed academic reflection and practical knowledge accumulated by NGO, only one decade later that concept seems to be largely overcome. Development education has broken away from the vague definition as a set of actions to be understood as an ongoing educational process. This idea was reflected in the “Development education strategy for Spanish cooperation”, fulfilled in 2007 based on the ideas of many contributors, among whom were Dr. Ortega Carpio and other ETEA...
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