DOCUMENT RESUME ED 360 203 SO 022 783 AUTHOR Kniep, Willard, Ed.; Danant, 3oelle, Ed. TITLE Perspectives from the South in Development Education. Development Education Annual 1990/1991. INSTITUTION National Clearinghouse on Development Education, New York, NY. REPORT NO ISSN- 1064-6657 PUB DATE [91] NOTE 49p. AVAILABLE FROMNational Clearinghouse on Development Education, The American Forum for Global Education, 45 John Street, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10038 ($6). PUB TYPE Collected Works - General (020) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Developing Nations; *Economic Development; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; Industrialization; *International Education; International Programs; World Affairs IDENTIFIERS Africa; Asia; Caribbean; *Development Education; Latin America ABSTRACT This annual publication presents perspectives on development education from developing nations or "Southern" countries. The following articles are included: "Development Education: Education Beyond Labels" (P. Christenson); "Synthesis and Reflections of Annual '90/91" (J. Sommer); "Creating the World in Our Own Image: The American Media Defines Africa" (M. Mpanya); "Development Education about Africa: Decoding the Domination" (E. Aw); "InterAction Guidelines for Educating about Development" (T. Keehn; N. VanderWerf); "Understanding the Realities in Latin American & the Caribbean: An Insider's Assessment of U.S. Education Materials on the Region" (B. Taveras); "Learning about Asia by Inserting Structural Analysis in Development Education" (A. Purnomo); "Development Education within Minnesota Communities: The Role of the International Student" (D. Abebe); "Women to Women: A South-North Dialogue through Video" (C. Radomski); "The YWCA Model: An Interview with Joyce Gillilan-Goldberg"; "Development Education is a Two-Way Street: The Experience of an Indian Educator in East Tennessee" (S. Nataraj); "Partner in Residence at Heifer Project International: A Voice from the South. An Interview with Sule Umaru"; and "Development Education is THE Priority" (D. Korten). The volume also includes a description of two projects currently in progress; Vikramshila Resource Centre in Calcutta, India and an Asia Society Project that examines the increasingly important role that individuals and voluntary organizations play in protecting the environment, expanding the roles and rights of women, and addressing the problems of rapid urbanization in South and Southeast Asia. An evaluation questionnaire for publication concludes the document. 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Q'ti" In memory of our friend and colleague, Carrol Joy 1938-1990 1 3 DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ANNUAL 1990/1991 A journal of the National Clearinghouse onDevelopment Education The American Forum for Global Education CONTENTS Editors Note 2 Special Features Case Studies nevelopment Education4 28Doelopment Edu,:ationithm Minnesota Euncatino, Beyond Lthek, Communities: tudent bv Philip L. Chnstenson The Role of the Internattona by Daniel Abebe Synthesis and Reflections of Annual .00/1)1 7 by John G. .Sinnmer 30\\ omen to Women. A South-North Dialogue through Video (boil Radonicki Focus on Africa, Asia, & Latin America S The YWCA Model. Ar Interview Creating the World in Our Own Image 33 10 with lovce The Amerk.an N1echa Defines Ainca Njutombo Ntranva 36Development Education is a Two-Wa street The ENperience of an Indian Development Education About 12 Edu(ator m East Tennessee Decoding the Domination I'\ Shahn! Ndia/ai 1,\ EuQni :lit 33Partner in Residence at Heller Project InterAction caudelmes for Educating16 International. A Voice Irom the South about Development An interview with 'tile L'inaru "lot ha,Iztzround by 11ionia\ /3 ke/in NM( VathI/11WC11 Other 41 Development Education is .F1 IF Priority nderstanding the Realities in Latin America 22 by Dot Id Konen &: the Larthhean: An Insiders Assessment of " Educational Materials on the Region Work in Progress hr Barbara nAVIIIS 42 43r% am mon Questionnaire lor the 1000/9I Annual Learning about Asia by Inserting 25 structural Analysis in Development Education Agus Put non) 4 EDITORS' NOTE Building on the enthusiastic response from the Southern perspectives into development education. In development education community for the first the last several years, presentations having to do with issue, we are pleased to present the second including Southern perspectives have become regular Development Education Annual. Our focus is on features at development education meetings and confer- including Southern voices and perspectives in efforts to ences. Many development educators now accept this educate about international development issues and approach as a means both for fostering interest among Southern countries. the American public and for presenting more accurate Concern for bringing southern voices to Northern and relevant messages about developing countries. audiences can be traced to a series of conferences on Aside for Carrol Joy's monograph and the report development and development education. The first of Toward Partnership in Africa, 1990. (in English and these was the 1987 London conference on "Development French) from InterAction's Africa Partnership project, lit- Alternatives.' co-sponsored by World Development and tle has been written on the subject in the U.S. Hoping to by the Overseas Development Institute. fill this gap and stimulate discussion on critical issues of This conference represented a turning point for the theory and practice. we have adapted "voices from the field of development, and by extension, for development South" as the theme of the the 1990/91 Development education as well. For the firstt me. a large number of Education Annual. NGO leaders from the South .,pressed their need to be We believe that 1990/91 Annual raises some of the basic included as partners in the process of development assis- questions and issues about including Southern perspec- tance from the North. Their message emphasized the. tives in development education. Some of our colleagues importance of advocacy and education by Northern from the North address questions related to whether it is NGOs to influence their own publics and governments desirable and how it is possible to effectively include toward more favorable foreign policies. Southern perspectives. Southern colleagues provide us Similar messages were heard at the annual fora of with their cntical assessments of development education Inter Action in 1988 and 1989. There, again, representa- in the U.S. tives of Southern NGOs argued eloquently for the inclu- We are saddened to report that we were unable to sion of their perspectives and participation in include our regular feature on the status of research in development while offering compelling critiques of the development education due to the untimely death in way their countries have been portrayed in fundraising November of our friend and colleague Carrol Joy. She and education messages in the U.S. was preparing a special feature about her research on a Momentum for including Southern voices in develop- new teaching methodology for addressing negative atti- ment education also came from Carrol Joy's 1987 mono- tudes toward the Third World. We are indebted to Carrol graph entitled Educating About Development: Implications for her boundless creative ideas and contributions to this of a Public Opinion Study which was published as a com- Annual and to development education, of which she was panion to What Americans Think: Views on Development considered and will remain, a leading thinker. and U.S. Third World Relations, a study by InterAction and We would like to thank here all the contributors to the The Overseas Development Council. Joy argued that, in Annual, who had to make time when there was none and light of the American public's lack of knowledge and apa-without whom this issue would not exist. We are espe- thy towards international development issues. the most cially grateful to Diana Shannon for her beautiful layout effective way to interest and involve the public was for and design which greatly enhances the readability of the the people from the south to tell their own story journal. Meanwhile, as support for North-South partnership As you join us for this on-going critical debate, we wel- grew. InterAction initiated an innovative partnership pro- come your reactions, as well as ideas and suggestions for ject with African NGOs which involved both the devel- future issues of the Annual. opment and development education communities. The result has been an increased commitment to integrating Williard Kniep Joelle Danant DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ANNUAL