‘Aid’ to higher education in a multiplex world: Exploring the diversity of donor discourses and rationales

IF 2.8 3区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

International Journal of Educational Development Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103162

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Abstract

The international development landscape is more ‘multiplex’ today than was the case after WWII, when the architecture of international aid was established. A broad range of national, international, multinational, and private organisations now operate within a more interdependent and participatory landscape. Attitudes to aid have also shifted significantly in recent years, due to international agreements around aid ‘effectiveness’ and global events. This article considers how this changing landscape has affected aid to higher education in lower-income contexts. Analysis of the main publicly-facing documents produced by the top 15 funders of higher education in the Global South reveals a significant discursive shift away from traditional understandings of ‘aid’, while also pointing to entrenched norms and hierarchies that persist, despite this rhetorical change. The findings offer a timely reflection on the roles assumed by funders of higher education in LMICs and on the position of higher education within broader development agendas around the world.

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多元世界中的高等教育 "援助"：探索捐助方话语和理由的多样性

与二战后建立国际援助架构时相比，今天的国际发展格局更加 "多元化"。各种国家组织、国际组织、跨国组织和私营组织现在都在一个更加相互依存和参与性更强的环境中运作。近年来，由于围绕援助 "有效性 "达成的国际协议和全球事件，人们对援助的态度也发生了重大转变。本文探讨了这种不断变化的形势如何影响了对低收入国家高等教育的援助。通过分析全球南部前 15 名高等教育资助者面向公众的主要文件，我们发现他们对 "援助 "的传统理解发生了重大转变，同时也指出，尽管在言辞上发生了变化，但根深蒂固的规范和等级制度依然存在。研究结果及时反映了低收入和中等收入国家高等教育资助者所承担的角色，以及高等教育在全球更广泛发展议程中的地位。

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International Journal of Educational Development EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

12.00%

发文量

106

审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： The purpose of the International Journal of Educational Development is to foster critical debate about the role that education plays in development. IJED seeks both to develop new theoretical insights into the education-development relationship and new understandings of the extent and nature of educational change in diverse settings. It stresses the importance of understanding the interplay of local, national, regional and global contexts and dynamics in shaping education and development. Orthodox notions of development as being about growth, industrialisation or poverty reduction are increasingly questioned. There are competing accounts that stress the human dimensions of development.