Yamada, Shoko. Chapter 2 to Shoko Yamada (ed)(2016). Post-Education-For-All and Sustainable Development Paradigm: Structural change and diversifying actors and norms. London: Emerald Publishing. 1 Chapter 2. Post-EFA Global Discourse: The Process of Shaping the Shared View of the “Education Community” 1 Shoko Yamada (Nagoya University) Table of Contents Chapter 2. Post-EFA Global Discourse: Highlighted issues and politics ......... 1 1. Introduction ................................................................................................... 4 1-1. Methodologies of research ...................................................................... 7 2. Architecture of consensus-building toward Post-2015 education agenda . 15 2-1. SDG process and the U.N. Secretariat-led mechanisms ..................... 20 2-2. Post-EFA process and the UNESCO-led mechanisms ........................ 22 Structure of EFA and Post-EFA Consultation ............................................ 22 Major forums toward Post-EFA and the challenges of setting unified agendas ....................................................................................................................... 24 3. Actors involved in the discourse.................................................................. 31 1 I would like to express sincere appreciation to those anonymous interviewees who candidly shared their opinions and observations of the post-2015 consultation process. Although I cannot write their names here, some of them even gave additional comments on my research after the interview. Takashi Miyake and the executive members of Japan NGO Network for Education (JNNE) connected me with the first group of interviewees, who became the important gates to a wider circle of informants. I also owe a great deal of thanks for technical assistance in the process of conducting the data analysis from the team of Takeshi Furuhashi and Tomohiro Yoshikawa of the School of Engineering, Nagoya University. Special gratitude goes to Shingo Tsukioka, a master’s student of engineering, for providing tireless support to me, an amateur text miner. Koichi Higuchi of Ritsumeikan University, developer of the software KH Coder, also provided timely and detailed advice on overcoming various technical problems. The study was also made possible by the support of two PhD students who worked as my research assistants, Xuemei Li and Natsuki Kondo, in taking charge of the laborious work of downloading texts from the Web. I also would like to express my sincere appreciation to my former colleague Naohiro Takizawa, of Ritsumeikan University, for our initial brainstorming and suggestions.