糖心传媒

糖心传媒 is pleased to announce that the Student Prize for a paper presented at the 2013 UKFIET Conference has been awarded to Bronwen Magrath for her paper, ‘Information Politics and Transnational Activism in the Education for All Movement’.

Bronwen obtained her PhD from the University of Toronto in November 2013. 聽She completed a collaborative doctorate in Comparative, International and Development Education at the聽Ontario Institute for Studies in Education聽and the聽Dynamics of Global Change Program at the聽Munk School of Global Affairs.

Her broad research interests surround the role of non-state actors in global governance, the construction of transnational advocacy networks, and the emergence of the human-rights based approach as a global development norm.聽Her dissertation,聽entitled聽Advocacy as Political Strategy,聽examined the emergence of political advocacy as a preferred organizational strategy for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the development education field.

Paper Abstract

This paper explores transnational activism within the “Education for All” (EFA) movement, looking specifically at the strategic use of information and research by transnational advocacy organizations. Through a comparative case-study examination of two international NGOs within the EFA movement 鈥� the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE) and ActionAid International 鈥� I discuss how information about education is gathered, generated and disseminated for advocacy purposes, and what this tells us about the internal dynamics and strategies of these organizations. In particular, I focus on the ways these organizations translate grassroots evidence into regional and global policy fora, and raise questions about how this translation process impacts the legitimacy of advocacy NGOs and the power structures between NGO headquarters and their grassroots membership.