Dyer, C (2016) Evolving approaches to educating children from nomadic communities. Prospects, 46 (1). pp. 39-54. ISSN 0033-1538
Abstract
Evolving policies have increasingly aimed to include nomadic groups in EFA, but an overemphasis on mobility has distracted policy makers from going beyond access logistics to consider learning needs within nomads’ contemporary livelihoods and cultural values. Notable global trends are the growth and institutionalization of forms of Alternative Basic Education (provided by state and nonstate actors for “disadvantaged” learners) and advocacy of Open and Distance Learning. Case studies of mobile pastoralists in Kenya, India, and Afghanistan, and of sea nomads in Indonesia, illustrate policy and practices on the ground. They highlight a need to address equality, equivalence, and learner progression more closely, rather than adopting strategies for education inclusion that reinforce nomadic groups’ sociopolitical marginalization. This requires an extended post-2015 engagement with the larger political question of education’s role in undermining, or sustaining and validating, mobile livelihoods.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, UNESCO IBE. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Prospects. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-016-9381-6 |
Keywords: | Alternative Basic Education; Nomads; Mobile pastoralists; Inclusion; Education for All |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2016 12:29 |
Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2017 21:17 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-016-9381-6 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11125-016-9381-6 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99037 |