Education and Development Post
2015
Reflecting, Reviewing,
Re-visioning
10-12 September 2013
As the Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development
Goal (MDG) 2015 milestones draw nearer, governments and the wider
international community are working to define new development
frameworks that address the realities of 2015 and beyond. Education
is an important part of this debate.
The UKFIET Conference is designed to contribute to this
international process. It is timely to reflect on the origins,
construction and evolution of ‘global’ education campaigns,
movements, and partnerships, and the evidence that they provide in
helping to define new or modified global and national agendas. It
is important to review what has been accomplished since global
education goals and targets were set in Jomtien (1990) and in Dakar
(2000), and to learn lessons from their use and application. Most
urgently, there is a need to examine the research and the evidence
that should inform the construction of education and development
frameworks beyond 2015, set within an analysis of changing global
imperatives and new paradigms for international cooperation and
research.
Accordingly, the 2013 UKFIET Conference will provide the
opportunity for a broad international constituency to:
- REFLECT upon the origins, evolution and effects of previous
global education development movements;
- REVIEW accomplishments and challenges arising from the
1990-2015 era, and;
- RE-VISION education and development for the Post-2015
period.
As Post-2015 discussions gather pace, the 12th UKFIET
International Conference on Education and Development provides an
international platform to consider research and development
cooperation experience that is directly relevant to defining new
initiatives for changing times. The Conference invites delegates to
examine its three main themes as a contribution to the
identification of Post-2015 research and development cooperation
agendas. We welcome research, ideas, accounts of experience, and
new thinking from policy-makers, advisers, teachers, practitioners,
academics, researchers, managers and graduate students.
Conference sessions will be held at the University of Oxford
Examination Schools
Accommodation will be in New College, Oxford