Education is often perceived in policy agendas as playing a transformative role in realising sustainable development and the SDGs on the continent. The assumption is based, however, on an insufficiently critical understanding of the historical role of education in supporting unsustainable development. The article provides a critical account of the relationship between education policy and sustainable development in Africa as an aspect of the postcolonial condition, i.e. as an aspect of the colonial legacy and of Africa’s position in relation to contemporary processes of globalisation. It is argued that if education is to play a transformative role in relation to sustainable development then education policy needs to be fundamentally re-oriented and harnessed to wider processes of economic, cultural and political transformation in the interests of social and environmental justice.

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教育促进非洲的可持续发展：对区域议程的批评

在政策议程中，人们通常认为教育在实现非洲大陆的可持续发展和可持续发展目标方面发挥着变革性作用。但是，这种假设是基于对教育在支持不可持续发展中的历史作用的批评认识不足。这篇文章作为后殖民状况的一个方面，即殖民地遗产的一个方面，以及非洲在当代全球化进程中的地位，提供了对非洲教育政策与可持续发展之间关系的批判性描述。有人认为，如果教育要在可持续发展方面发挥变革性作用，那么就必须从根本上重新定向教育政策，并将其用于更广泛的经济过程，