Reforming International Cooperation in Education

—Integrated Approaches for Peace, Human Right and Development

Abstract

Education is regarded as an important factor for achieving basic human right in developing countries as well as for their socio-economic development. Education is also expected to contribute to building a multi-cultural and peaceful world. This paper, at first, describes historical development of these three expectations on education by international aid community and critically analyzes the current trend of international cooperation in education. Then, this paper discusses current status of educational development research from the three conflicting perspectives of (1) external effect of education vs. internal efficiency of education, (2) development oriented approach vs. education centered approach, and (3) dependency theory vs. modernization theory, and tries to prospect future direction of this academic field of educational development and international cooperation in education.