glokal e.V. 2013: Education for Sustainable Inequality? A Postcolonial Analysis of Development Education Materials in Germany, available online.
Short Description:
In daycare centers, schools, worldshops, educational support for voluntary services and adult education: development education work has opened up many target groups in recent years and is to be further institutionalized in the future. Oriented on the guiding principle of sustainable development, development education work should create awareness of global interrelationships and promote the assumption of responsibility. But what effect does it have on society? What effects does it achieve with the target groups? From a wealth of educational materials, glokal e.V. has selected over 100 method booklets from 2007-2012 and analyzed them on the basis of postcolonial issues. The resulting documentary “Education for Sustainable Inequality?” offers a theoretical introduction to postcolonial perspectives as well as a detailed, practical analysis of current examples from development education work. It ends with the conclusion that development education work with its current practice contributes to the stabilization of inequality relations both in relation to the German migration society and in the global context. This is done by referring to Eurocentric historiography, not challenging the concepts of development and culture, and creating exclusions and discriminations in learning materials and learning groups. The documentation is rounded off by a practical aid for the author’s own postcolonial analysis of educational materials.