Information dissemination: The role of the International Journal of Educational Development 1979–89

Possibilities and priorities for IJED in times of uncertainty: A 40th anniversary analysis

“…The origins of IJED have been documented in several articles over the years by Taylor (1988 ), Vulliam, (1988 ), Watson (1990 ) and McGrath (2010 ). Here we build upon this 10-year tradition in forward-looking ways that engage with changing global circumstances and related intellectual developments.…”

“…Helping to consolidate this niche positioning, when the Editorial Board decided to celebrate the first ten years of publication with a conference in Oxford, Pergamon Press in conjunction with the World Bank, agreed to both sponsor the event and help with its organisation. This was held in September 1989 on the theme of ‘Development Through Education’ and the resulting papers became available in Volume 10 (2-3) 1990 of IJED (See also Watson, 1990 ).…”

Education and development: Thirty years of continuity and change

“…In spite of 30 years' worth of effort by IJED and the much wider outputs in this field, education remains a marginalised element of development thinking (McGrath, 2010, reprising a concern expressed by Watson, 1990). Notwithstanding the quotation with which I opened this paper and the very visible reflection of the education-development link in the two Millennium Development Goals on education, and the widespread policy acceptance of human capital theory in the discourse of the -global knowledge economy‖, the presence of education in development studies is very minor.…”