Politics Of Educational Innovations In Developing Countries

Author : Nelly P. Stromquist,Michael L. Basile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135579616

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Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing Countries by Nelly P. Stromquist,Michael L. Basile Pdf

In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book examines innovations in several developing countries, presenting case studies of technological, curricular, and organizational innovations selected for their magnitude in financial investment, scope, and duration. The case studies explore the social and political contexts that shaped the features of these innovations and what they accomplished over time in terms of teacher cost reduction, status mobility, access to education, and national unity. The experience of countries such as Brazil, Lesotho, the Philippines, and Namibia, and the influence of international agencies such as the World Bank are described and analyzed against theories of social and organizational change. The case studies themselves also serve as subjects for reflection on the prevailing positivist approaches to research and knowledge. The Politics of Educational Innovations should be of considerable interest to students of educational change, wither in the academic world or in the fields of government and international cooperation.

Author : Nelly P. Stromquist,Michael L. Basile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 081533155X

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Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing Countries by Nelly P. Stromquist,Michael L. Basile Pdf

In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book examines innovations in several developing countries, presenting case studies of technological, curricular, and organizational innovations selected for their magnitude in financial investment, scope, and duration. The case studies explore the social and political contexts that shaped the features of these innovations and what they accomplished over time in terms of teacher cost reduction, status mobility, access to education, and national unity. The experience of countries such as Brazil, Lesotho, the Philippines, and Namibia, and the influence of international agencies such as the World Bank are described and analyzed against theories of social and organizational change. The case studies themselves also serve as subjects for reflection on the prevailing positivist approaches to research and knowledge. The Politics of Educational Innovations should be of considerable interest to students of educational change, wither in the academic world or in the fields of government and international cooperation.

Author : Keith M. Lewin,Janet S. Stuart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349131044

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Educational Innovation in Developing Countries by Keith M. Lewin,Janet S. Stuart Pdf

'Because of the insights offered the book under review should be compulsory reading for Ministers of Education and educational planners as well as for students of educational reform. They would find it readable, informative and disturbing. This could well become a classic account of why innovations fail. - Keith Watson, Department of Education Studies and Management, University of Reading Educational investment is now back at the top of the development agenda. The World Conference on Education for All confirmed the commitment of national governments and donors to provide opportunities for all children to enrol in school and reach minimum levels of achievement. This book takes a new look at the problems that confront politicians, planners, curriculum developers and teachers in implementing educational innovations in developing countries. The insights into theory and practice that emerge provide the intellectual yeast for the development of effective innovation strategies for the next decade.

Author : Samuel Hickey,Naomi Hossain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198835684

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The Politics of Education in Developing Countries by Samuel Hickey,Naomi Hossain Pdf

This book focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries. It deploys a new conceptual framework to show how the type of political settlement shaptes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes.

Author : Ronald G. Havelock,A. M. Huberman,International Bureau of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UIUC:30112012363146

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Solving Educational Problems by Ronald G. Havelock,A. M. Huberman,International Bureau of Education Pdf

Author : Richard D. Lakes,Patricia A. Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135611057

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Globalizing Education for Work by Richard D. Lakes,Patricia A. Carter Pdf

This book takes a critical look at the impact of globalization as it relates to educating women for work. It explores current efforts in a number of nations to make vocational education and training gender equitable.

Author : James Lynch,Celia Modgil,Sohan Modgil
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004228438

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Education and Development by James Lynch,Celia Modgil,Sohan Modgil Pdf

The five volumes of Education and Development are concerned with the achievement of universal primary education. Volume 1 looks at the factors which impede this aim, and suggests proposals for facilitating it

Author : Pamela Fraser-Abder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135721985

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Professional Development in Science Teacher Education by Pamela Fraser-Abder Pdf

This book explores global issues in the professional development of science teachers, and considers classroom applications of teacher training with a comparative lens. The twelve studies collected in this volume span five continents and vastly differing models of teacher education. Carefully detailing the social and cultural contexts for the teaching of science, this is a guidebook for anyone concerned with equity and reform in professional development.

Author : Allan Walker,Clive Dimmock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136061141

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School Leadership and Administration by Allan Walker,Clive Dimmock Pdf

This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The articles collected by Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock detail the educational practices and outcomes of other systems while taking into account the mediating influence of culture. In this way, these essays stress the specific aspects of the cultures studied, and map out common ground for the study of administrators' values, beliefs, and actions.

Author : William K. Cummings,James H. Williams
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781578868957

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Policy-Making for Education Reform in Developing Countries by William K. Cummings,James H. Williams Pdf

Policy-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 in a global economy, sustained economic growth, social harmony and greater civic participation, decreased achievement gaps, and increased equity.

Author : Jane L. Parpart,Shirin M. Rai,Kathleen A. Staudt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134472116

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Rethinking Empowerment by Jane L. Parpart,Shirin M. Rai,Kathleen A. Staudt Pdf

Rethinking Empowerment looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and calls for a new approach to empowerment. An approach that adopts a more nuanced, feminist interpretation of power and em(power)ment, recognises that local empowerment is always embedded in regional, national and global contexts, pays attention to institutional structures and politics and acknowledges that empowerment is both a process and an outcome. Moreover, the book warns that an obsession with measurement rather than process can undermine efforts to foster transformative and empowering outcomes. It concludes that power must be restored as the centrepiece of empowerment. Only then will the term and its advocates provide meaningful ammunition for dealing with the challenges of an increasingly unequal, and often sexist, global/local world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030864370

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The Generalisation of Educational Innovations by Anonim Pdf

Author : David P. Baker,Alexander W. Wiseman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780762313082

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The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Institutional Theory by David P. Baker,Alexander W. Wiseman Pdf

Explores how educational research from a comparative perspective has been instrumental in broadening and testing hypotheses from institutional theory. This book contains theoretical discussions of the impact that comparative research has had on institutional theory and comparative scholarship that tests basic institutional assumptions and trends.

Author : Yasushi Hirosato,Yuto Kitamura
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402093777

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The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia by Yasushi Hirosato,Yuto Kitamura Pdf

Yasushi Hirosato and Yuto Kitamura Developing countries, including Southeast Asian countries, face an enormous challenge in ensuring equitable access to quality education in the context of deepening globalization and increasing international competition. They must simultaneously meet the goals of Education for All (EFA) at the basic education level and of developing a more sophisticated workforce required by the knowledge-based economy at the post-basic, especially tertiary, education level. To meet this challenge, developing countries need to reform/renovate their education systems and service deliveries as an integral part of national development. However, most of them have not yet fully developed the individual, institutional, and system capacities in undertaking necessary education reforms, especially under decentralization and privatization requiring new roles at various (central and local, or public and private) levels of administration and stakeholders. Provided that an ultimate vision of educational development and cooperation in the twenty-first century would be to develop indigenous capacity in engineering education reforms, this book analyzes the overall education reform context and capacity, including the status of sector program support using the sector-wide approach (SWAp)/program-based approach (PBA) in developing countries. We also address how different stakeholders have been interacting in order to promote equitable access to quality education, particularly from the perspectives of capacity development under the system of decentralization.

Author : David Ludwig,Birgit Boogaard,Phil Macnaghten,Cees Leeuwis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000478723

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The Politics of Knowledge in Inclusive Development and Innovation by David Ludwig,Birgit Boogaard,Phil Macnaghten,Cees Leeuwis Pdf

This book develops an integrated perspective on the practices and politics of making knowledge work in inclusive development and innovation. While debates about development and innovation commonly appeal to the authority of academic researchers, many current approaches emphasise the plurality of actors with relevant expertise for addressing livelihood challenges. Adopting an action-oriented and reflexive approach, this volume explores the variety of ways in which knowledge works, paying particular attention to dilemmas and controversies. The six parts of the book address the complex interplay of knowledge and politics, starting with the need for knowledge integration in the first part and decolonial perspectives on the politics of knowledge integration in the second part. The following three parts focus on the practices of inclusive development and innovation through three major themes of learning for transformative change, evidence, and digitisation. The final part of the book addresses the governance of knowledge and innovation in the light of political struggles about inclusivity. Exploring conceptual and practical themes through case studies from the Global North and South, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners researching and working in development studies, epistemology, innovation studies, science and technology studies, and sustainability studies more broadly.