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Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issuesreviewed by Ali A. Abdi - 2004 Title: Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issues Author(s): William Scott and Stephen Gough Publisher: Taylor & Francis, London ISBN: 0415276470 , Pages: 192, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Discussions and analyses that pertain to the theorizing as well
as the possible practice of development, especially international
development, have now been in the books for at least 60 years. The
conspicuous failure (by-and-large) of the global promise of
conventional development, lately complemented by the emerging and
expanding foci on sustainable development, has also now been
mainstreamed into academic and selective policy platforms for at
least the past 30 years. As should be known, though, even the
promise of sustainable development, which should have been more
environmentally inclusive, seems to have been overwhelmed by its
own rhetoric. Thus development is still far from achieving,
except perhaps in select traditional or quasi-traditional
communities, its overall objectives. As a result, in the last 10 or
so years, we have witnessed new lines of counter-development
criticisms that question, not necessarily the sustainability or
other prospects of development, but fundamentally the overall
possibilities of all development. Hence, the new and, one must
admit, powerful theorizing on the malaise of modernity as... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Ali Abdi
University of Alberta E-mail Author ALI A. ABDI is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in the Department of Educational Policy Studies.
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