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Third World Educationby Anthony R. Welch
Garland Science 2000; US$ 165.00This book debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. This book argues that any worthy definition of quality education must include the interest of the underprivileged. more...
Politics of Educational Innovation in Developing Countriesby Stromquist
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 155.00The set of innovation case studies presented herein was built gradually over a period of years, as instances of educational change of singular interest began to be accumulated. A special effort was made to obtain studies that would be prepared by persons who were closely involved with an educational innovation because they were associated with its evaluation or monitoring, because they played a partial role in its implementation, or because they were there to observe the innovation efforts during their years of evolution. What we obtained over this incremental process of case study collection, therefore, has been firsthand detail yet with some distance and without defensiveness of what was analyzed. While it was not possible to obtain... more...
Education for Allby David P. Baker; Alex Wiseman
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 99.95Examines EFA policies with examples from across the globe more...
International Assistance and State-University Relationsby Jo Bastiaens
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 140.00This book explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations. more...
Toward Universal Primary Educationby UN Millennium Project
Earthscan 2005; US$ 45.00The Millennium Development Goals adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015income poverty hunger disease exclusion lack of infrastructure and shelterwhile promoting gender equality education health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure just and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development... more...
School Management and Effectiveness in Developing Countriesby Lynn Davies; Clive Harber
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 130.00This book is quite different from existing 'Western' books on school effectiveness. It describes and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to explain why they are as they are. Examining them at three levels - the macro, the meso and the micro - the authors use a theoretical framework that they have termed 'post-bureaucracy.'The book has four interlinked sections. First the authors examine the existing economic and theoretical contexts around school effectiveness, including an analysis of the causes of economic crisis and its impact on school management. In the second section the analysis of schools as bureaucratic facades is proposed. The reality of school life, from which any theory... more...
Education and Developmentby James Lynch
Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 110.00This text approaches the subject of education and development on the basis that free universal primary education is a human right, which should be accorded to all children forthwith. This must be provided as a package of benefits, encompassing universal primary education, basic health care and adequate nutrition. The analysis allows for the fact that policies for education are also subject to the influence of broader social philosophies and epistomologies than those solely of the educational system. more...
Innovations in Delivering Primaryby James Lynch
Continuum International Publishing 1998; US$ 170.00This volume of the series that debates the need for universal primary education, is concerned with the "good behaviour" of would-be educational innovators in developing countries. The text looks at the need for a code of practice and relating that to issues of economic realism, human rights sensitivity, ecological responsibility and educational effectiveness. more...
Policy-Making for Education Reform in Developing Countriesby William Cummings; James Williams
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2008; US$ 79.99Policy-Making for Education Reform in Developing Countries aims at helping policymakers in developing countries better understand the processes and strategies for education reform, and the policy options available to them. This text focuses on the content of reform-options and strategies for achieving educational improvement at different levels of the system, e.g., primary, secondary, tertiary; for different sub-sectors, e.g., management, teachers; and for different purposes with which education systems are tasked, e.g., reaching peripheral groups of students, linking youth and employment. A holistic approach is increasingly recognized as essential to realizing the promises of education for the development of social and human capital-innovation... more...
Education for Development or Underdevelopment?by M.K. Bacchus
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 85.00How critical is education in the development struggle of a third world country? Responding to popular demands for more accessible education, the Guyanese government instituted numerous educational reforms, hoping to promote economic growth in both the modern and the traditional sectors of the economy. Many in the traditional sector, however, saw education as a means of economic advancement, and sought increasingly to move into higher social strata through employment in the modern sector. Consequently, the civil service and private firms gained an oversupply of personnel, while agriculture and small business suffered, and unemployment increased. The author examines Guyana’s educational system from historical, political, social, and economic... more...









