Symbology,
Graphology and
Development
Concept of a Leaf
the Rise of
Development Educationists
Ridwanul Mosrur
Friday Forum, Global Education Cooperation, College of Education, Seoul National University
4 November 2016
Education remains a fundamental necessity
for sustainable social development to build
egalitarian society.
Mrs Olanike Adekunle, educationist
Kunike International School, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria
http://www.kis.org.ng/
People are designed to interact and learn together as they always lived
together.
Why there so many schools in service, so many charity trying hard to
deliver literacy, so may bilateral and multilateral operates with massive
funds, so many library full of books stands out there ….
….and still 758 million* people are illiterate!
Don’t just say ‘they don’t have access’
Because, learning is not a cognitive but social process
* UNESCO data, 2016
Development Education: the new frontier
Education is no more limited to an indicator or any means of development – it is
the development.
Education can provide 3 (three) things, which can achieve anything –
i. The freedom
ii. The choice
iii. The knowledge/skill
Educationists who analyze the educational improvement and structural/social
change.
Till now, the psychological aspects of development were ignored and
remained in the darkness.
Development was seen as a socio-economic reality initially, socio-
economic with a strong link with politico-cultural process lately but is
that it?
If you have everything you need and still you think that you don’t -
can you be tagged as ‘developed’?
Then what is this ‘development’? Is it a ‘perception’?
Dark side of the Moon
Power of Mass Perceptions
TheMutualUFOnetwork
The cold war
propaganda
attribute to
psychological
section of US
Military
Is ‘development’ is the development of mass
perception or truly ‘development’?
Conspiracy and Paranoia
White-man’s burden?
Development is essential for global
integrity and peace
Total Control
What is ‘total control’?
Cultural Colonization
Debate
Is Population is a problem?
For the sake of
development – it
needed to be
controlled!
How?
Development
projects or
something else?
The last two decades of economic achievements of China and India have proved that
population explosion is perhaps not necessarily a detrimental force in economic development.
Why ‘poverty’ is the biggest problem?
Issues like hunger, illness and thirst are both causes and effects of poverty. For instance, not having
water means you're poor, but being poor also means that you may not be able to afford water or
food. In a sense, these issues are both a symptom and a cause of poverty.
• poverty heighten crime, high intensity of gangs and violence
in the slums.
• Poverty creates tensions, unrest and social divide in the
society
• Poor housing & living conditions, a classic cause of diseases;
• Water and food-related diseases, simply because the poor
can't always afford "safe" foods.
• Poverty as a factor of social exclusion, mental and physical
illness
• Poverty boosting up terrorism - Afghans producing opium for
the Talibans, one of the rare decent paying jobs in the country
As a student, what
you want to have in
your life – a good
job which will help
you to have
everything else you
want?
If you believe so, keep your
figure crossed – because
there is a free-market full
of competition which you
together have created !
So, how education
is helpful?
We know Money is the just a necessity and
we should learn and educate ourselves for
the higher values….
And then what happens….? Why…?
What is in control? And how?
If we act in this way, why we ask the poor
to educate themselves instead of ‘running
for business’ and ‘money-grabbing’?
Free-market control – in what
way we need to be educated and
how we should live our life
Government is responsible for
public good and education is a
basic right
Education liberates our mind and give us freedom
Development projects also target
education to ensure basic rights
and to empower individual
Democracy is our core value
and means of individual
empowerment
Why our visions and means are conflicting with each other?
Be free at the free-market?
Development Theories
Modernization theory
− Sociological and anthropological modernization theory
− Linear stages of growth model
− Critics of modernization theory
Structuralism
Dependency theory
Neoclassical theory / Structural adjustment
Post-development theory
Sustainable development
Human development theory
Failure of Modernization Theory
• deeply racist worldview embedded
• abundantly clear that high sounding moral ideas have served as a cover for
very low and despicable purposes
• failed to deliver results
• Not context focused - the idea that Western models are perfect in all areas,
including social, cultural and economic, leads to the dominant role of foreign
expert advisors in development
Modernization theory see west as the model and focused on simple economic
perspective ignoring the difference of cultural, geographical, political and social
aspects in the targeted countries
Failure of Dependency Theory
• Failed to suggest what will be the right policy
at right place
• can’t made clear on the very nature of
dependency
• Negative approach
• The theory is very much dependent of the
economic system and state-to-state relations
• Socialism is obsolete in global market driven
economy
More of all, it never explains – how a nation’s ideology, philosophy can be build
through ‘dependency’.
The Aid Cycle
Now, the beneficiaries are very concern about what and
how much they get from a project – whether that is
matching with there needs or not.
Donor
provide
money
Developing
nation build
projects for
the poor
Social,
Economic,
Political,
Cultural
change
New gaps,
new needs
New
agendas of
development
Whoisfoolingwhom–whythegaps–
whynewagendas–whynotplanning
withtheconsequenceahead–whoare
drivingthiscycle
Is ‘total development’ achievable?
Development targets at 1960s
Development targets at 1970s
Development targets at 1980s
Development targets at 1990s
MDG
SDG
……and what coming next?
Failure of Economic Development Models
Economic growth may not be termed as realistic and down-to-earth development
as the growth of wealth would not necessarily ensure that nobody would really be
hungry. Human development broadly refers to improvement in the overall human
well-being. And since, so far the economists expected which is actually untrue –
there is no automatic relationship between the growth of GNP and improvement in
the quality of life.
Sri Lanka, Chile, Jamaica, Thailand and Tanzania, have done far better on their human development
ranking than on their income ranking, whereas Oman, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Senegal have a much
higher income ranking than their human development ranking (UNDP, 1990: 14-16).
China, India and Pakistan have almost similar per capita GNP level but human development
performance of China is much better than the other two countries.
Failure of Economic Development model
Economic
Solvency
Buying capacity
Can that assure making
right choice?
Political Stability
What is right political
choice for them?
Better Life Conditions Need to differentiate what is
better as ‘better’ is relative?
Healthy LifeWhat are the healthy behavior
(preventive attitude – geo-
anthropological contextual)
Social Capital
& Cohesion
How to make better use of
them, what and when?
Knowledge
for Economic
production
How to make
that sustain after
achieving?
What is Human Development
Human Development as the center
People
Opportunities
Choices
Education as solution
However, the multidimensional process of development
involves reorganization and reorientation of the entire system –
economic, social and cultural.
Michael P. Todaro wrote that development, along with economic
development, involves radical changes in institutional, social and
administrative structures as well as people’s attitudes, customs and
beliefs.
Like health system, education can impact positively and
greatly in the other areas of life – social and personal well
being, income, political choices etc.
Why education is important for Development?
Education Project: what are the ‘expectations’ and
the ‘reality’?
• Why through-out so many education
projects, people yet to achieve self-
dependency?
• What can be proper education?
− Sen’s Capability
− Freire’s Liberation
− Cultural Circles
• Education as a tool, Education as a
strategy?
• Traditional Education vs
Development Education
Education as Breakthrough
Changing our perception and
attitude towards the
underdeveloped
Everyone is Educated but
not Literate
Every community and everyone
know, can and do – what is needed.
All they need, initial resource for
investing towards enhancing their
capabilities
Education as Development
• Non-guiding Empowering Education
• Promoting own values of the community
• Participatory Development Planning
• Collective Consciousness
• Strengthening Personal Capabilities and Freedom
• Bottom  up approach
• Nonmaterialistic rather Spiritual
• Investing Development for Development
Korea as Example
• Collective approach
• Strong Social Cohesion
• Education for consciousness, education for skill
• Blending indigenous and global values
• Better understanding of geo-political reality
• Economic Development as solution
• See power as a tool of uplifting own values rather aggressive purposes
• Inwards approach to Development
So, it is the self-consciousness and
realization of honor & self-respect which
will keep people moving forward.
People don’t die for anything but honor!
And only Education can mass-achieve
that.
Knowledge and Skill sharing in Korean ODA
policy – what exactly Korea wanted to share?
Changing Inwards Outan experience, a story
Project Title
Sushikha o Susasther mahdhomy Surokkha
(SSS) [meaning: Protection and Health through
better Education]
Goal
All children living in brothels have improved
access to education, health and protection
quality services in a non-discriminatory
environment
Related
Thematic areas
Education, Child Protection, Health,Nutrition &
HIV
Project Duration
July 2015 - June 2020
Phase 1- July 2015- June 2018
Phase 2- July 2018 – June 2020
Target
beneficiaries
Total: 3,445
Direct reach: Children 1605 (girl 873, boy 732);
Adult 1840 (female 1695, male 145)Indirect
reach: 6000 (children and adults)
Project Budget
KRW 1,966,833,015 (US $ 1,824,520) / (BDT
140,488,072)
Modern Educational Trends: Development in Minds
Skill-Specific Education
Social Learning as a Pedagogical Method
Learning-on-the-Go
Sen’s Individual
Capability and
Freedom
Freirean
Liberation and
Cultural Circle
Resource
Sharing beyond
geo-political
limitation
SocialDevelopmentDynamics
Knowledge Based Empowered and Enlightened Society with Global Cohesion
the Rise of Development Educationists

the Rise of Development Educationists

  • 1.
  • 2.
    the Rise of DevelopmentEducationists Ridwanul Mosrur Friday Forum, Global Education Cooperation, College of Education, Seoul National University 4 November 2016
  • 3.
    Education remains afundamental necessity for sustainable social development to build egalitarian society. Mrs Olanike Adekunle, educationist Kunike International School, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria http://www.kis.org.ng/
  • 4.
    People are designedto interact and learn together as they always lived together. Why there so many schools in service, so many charity trying hard to deliver literacy, so may bilateral and multilateral operates with massive funds, so many library full of books stands out there …. ….and still 758 million* people are illiterate! Don’t just say ‘they don’t have access’ Because, learning is not a cognitive but social process * UNESCO data, 2016
  • 5.
    Development Education: thenew frontier Education is no more limited to an indicator or any means of development – it is the development. Education can provide 3 (three) things, which can achieve anything – i. The freedom ii. The choice iii. The knowledge/skill Educationists who analyze the educational improvement and structural/social change.
  • 6.
    Till now, thepsychological aspects of development were ignored and remained in the darkness. Development was seen as a socio-economic reality initially, socio- economic with a strong link with politico-cultural process lately but is that it? If you have everything you need and still you think that you don’t - can you be tagged as ‘developed’? Then what is this ‘development’? Is it a ‘perception’? Dark side of the Moon
  • 7.
    Power of MassPerceptions TheMutualUFOnetwork The cold war propaganda attribute to psychological section of US Military
  • 8.
    Is ‘development’ isthe development of mass perception or truly ‘development’? Conspiracy and Paranoia White-man’s burden? Development is essential for global integrity and peace Total Control What is ‘total control’? Cultural Colonization Debate
  • 9.
    Is Population isa problem? For the sake of development – it needed to be controlled! How? Development projects or something else? The last two decades of economic achievements of China and India have proved that population explosion is perhaps not necessarily a detrimental force in economic development.
  • 10.
    Why ‘poverty’ isthe biggest problem? Issues like hunger, illness and thirst are both causes and effects of poverty. For instance, not having water means you're poor, but being poor also means that you may not be able to afford water or food. In a sense, these issues are both a symptom and a cause of poverty. • poverty heighten crime, high intensity of gangs and violence in the slums. • Poverty creates tensions, unrest and social divide in the society • Poor housing & living conditions, a classic cause of diseases; • Water and food-related diseases, simply because the poor can't always afford "safe" foods. • Poverty as a factor of social exclusion, mental and physical illness • Poverty boosting up terrorism - Afghans producing opium for the Talibans, one of the rare decent paying jobs in the country
  • 11.
    As a student,what you want to have in your life – a good job which will help you to have everything else you want? If you believe so, keep your figure crossed – because there is a free-market full of competition which you together have created ! So, how education is helpful?
  • 12.
    We know Moneyis the just a necessity and we should learn and educate ourselves for the higher values…. And then what happens….? Why…? What is in control? And how? If we act in this way, why we ask the poor to educate themselves instead of ‘running for business’ and ‘money-grabbing’?
  • 13.
    Free-market control –in what way we need to be educated and how we should live our life Government is responsible for public good and education is a basic right Education liberates our mind and give us freedom Development projects also target education to ensure basic rights and to empower individual Democracy is our core value and means of individual empowerment Why our visions and means are conflicting with each other? Be free at the free-market?
  • 14.
    Development Theories Modernization theory −Sociological and anthropological modernization theory − Linear stages of growth model − Critics of modernization theory Structuralism Dependency theory Neoclassical theory / Structural adjustment Post-development theory Sustainable development Human development theory
  • 15.
    Failure of ModernizationTheory • deeply racist worldview embedded • abundantly clear that high sounding moral ideas have served as a cover for very low and despicable purposes • failed to deliver results • Not context focused - the idea that Western models are perfect in all areas, including social, cultural and economic, leads to the dominant role of foreign expert advisors in development Modernization theory see west as the model and focused on simple economic perspective ignoring the difference of cultural, geographical, political and social aspects in the targeted countries
  • 16.
    Failure of DependencyTheory • Failed to suggest what will be the right policy at right place • can’t made clear on the very nature of dependency • Negative approach • The theory is very much dependent of the economic system and state-to-state relations • Socialism is obsolete in global market driven economy More of all, it never explains – how a nation’s ideology, philosophy can be build through ‘dependency’.
  • 17.
    The Aid Cycle Now,the beneficiaries are very concern about what and how much they get from a project – whether that is matching with there needs or not. Donor provide money Developing nation build projects for the poor Social, Economic, Political, Cultural change New gaps, new needs New agendas of development Whoisfoolingwhom–whythegaps– whynewagendas–whynotplanning withtheconsequenceahead–whoare drivingthiscycle
  • 18.
    Is ‘total development’achievable? Development targets at 1960s Development targets at 1970s Development targets at 1980s Development targets at 1990s MDG SDG ……and what coming next?
  • 19.
    Failure of EconomicDevelopment Models Economic growth may not be termed as realistic and down-to-earth development as the growth of wealth would not necessarily ensure that nobody would really be hungry. Human development broadly refers to improvement in the overall human well-being. And since, so far the economists expected which is actually untrue – there is no automatic relationship between the growth of GNP and improvement in the quality of life. Sri Lanka, Chile, Jamaica, Thailand and Tanzania, have done far better on their human development ranking than on their income ranking, whereas Oman, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Senegal have a much higher income ranking than their human development ranking (UNDP, 1990: 14-16). China, India and Pakistan have almost similar per capita GNP level but human development performance of China is much better than the other two countries.
  • 20.
    Failure of EconomicDevelopment model Economic Solvency Buying capacity Can that assure making right choice? Political Stability What is right political choice for them? Better Life Conditions Need to differentiate what is better as ‘better’ is relative? Healthy LifeWhat are the healthy behavior (preventive attitude – geo- anthropological contextual) Social Capital & Cohesion How to make better use of them, what and when? Knowledge for Economic production How to make that sustain after achieving?
  • 21.
    What is HumanDevelopment
  • 22.
    Human Development asthe center People Opportunities Choices
  • 23.
    Education as solution However,the multidimensional process of development involves reorganization and reorientation of the entire system – economic, social and cultural. Michael P. Todaro wrote that development, along with economic development, involves radical changes in institutional, social and administrative structures as well as people’s attitudes, customs and beliefs. Like health system, education can impact positively and greatly in the other areas of life – social and personal well being, income, political choices etc.
  • 24.
    Why education isimportant for Development?
  • 25.
    Education Project: whatare the ‘expectations’ and the ‘reality’? • Why through-out so many education projects, people yet to achieve self- dependency? • What can be proper education? − Sen’s Capability − Freire’s Liberation − Cultural Circles • Education as a tool, Education as a strategy? • Traditional Education vs Development Education
  • 26.
    Education as Breakthrough Changingour perception and attitude towards the underdeveloped Everyone is Educated but not Literate Every community and everyone know, can and do – what is needed. All they need, initial resource for investing towards enhancing their capabilities
  • 27.
    Education as Development •Non-guiding Empowering Education • Promoting own values of the community • Participatory Development Planning • Collective Consciousness • Strengthening Personal Capabilities and Freedom • Bottom  up approach • Nonmaterialistic rather Spiritual • Investing Development for Development
  • 28.
    Korea as Example •Collective approach • Strong Social Cohesion • Education for consciousness, education for skill • Blending indigenous and global values • Better understanding of geo-political reality • Economic Development as solution • See power as a tool of uplifting own values rather aggressive purposes • Inwards approach to Development
  • 29.
    So, it isthe self-consciousness and realization of honor & self-respect which will keep people moving forward. People don’t die for anything but honor! And only Education can mass-achieve that. Knowledge and Skill sharing in Korean ODA policy – what exactly Korea wanted to share?
  • 30.
    Changing Inwards Outanexperience, a story Project Title Sushikha o Susasther mahdhomy Surokkha (SSS) [meaning: Protection and Health through better Education] Goal All children living in brothels have improved access to education, health and protection quality services in a non-discriminatory environment Related Thematic areas Education, Child Protection, Health,Nutrition & HIV Project Duration July 2015 - June 2020 Phase 1- July 2015- June 2018 Phase 2- July 2018 – June 2020 Target beneficiaries Total: 3,445 Direct reach: Children 1605 (girl 873, boy 732); Adult 1840 (female 1695, male 145)Indirect reach: 6000 (children and adults) Project Budget KRW 1,966,833,015 (US $ 1,824,520) / (BDT 140,488,072)
  • 31.
    Modern Educational Trends:Development in Minds Skill-Specific Education Social Learning as a Pedagogical Method Learning-on-the-Go Sen’s Individual Capability and Freedom Freirean Liberation and Cultural Circle Resource Sharing beyond geo-political limitation SocialDevelopmentDynamics Knowledge Based Empowered and Enlightened Society with Global Cohesion