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The wheel keeps turning: A critical reflection on PIC1 partnerships in educational development

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dc.contributor.author Fox, Christine
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-14T01:04:12Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-14T01:04:12Z
dc.date.issued 2011
dc.identifier.citation http://iejcomparative.org en_US
dc.identifier.issn N 1443-1475
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/2317
dc.description 16 pages : PDF en_US
dc.description.abstract Current government discourses on partnerships tend to assume an uncritical belief in the existence of equal ownership and equal power relations between development partners and partner governments. The rhetoric of shared visions, common strategic directions or complementary approaches to development in the Pacific begs the question of how such visions and directions are interpreted by the ‘partners’, and especially how ideas look once they become funded development projects/programmes. This paper takes a critical postcolonial perspective of practice, past and present, and explores whether these partnerships are ‘working’ or whether the wheel of international development assistance goes round and round without much visible change. The author first examines the topic from a theoretical and policy perspective. She then utilizes examples from her experience in Pacific education as consultant and researcher, using Samoa as an illustrative case en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher International Education Journal: Comparative Perspective en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Volume 10;No. 2
dc.subject Keywords: international development partnerships; postcolonialism; aid discourse; Samoa en_US
dc.title The wheel keeps turning: A critical reflection on PIC1 partnerships in educational development en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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