Linn (1998) has suggested that policy - makers have placed enormous emphasis on assessment reform because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to mandate, can be implemented
rapidly, and is easily reported by the press, when compared to the type professional
development and restructuring / reculturing of schools required to affect deep, second - order
educational change (Fullan & Miles, 1992).
Development Education (DE), also known as Global Citizenship Education, is an
educational process aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of the
rapidly changing, interdependent and unequal world in which we live.