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McCloskey, Stephen – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
This book argues that the international development sector is in crisis which can be mostly sourced to its side-stepping the dominant development question of our age, the neoliberal growth paradigm. It argues that this crisis can be addressed, at least in part, by the sector's re-engagement with the radical development education process that it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Capacity Building, Educational Development
Sacks, Arlene – Grey House Publishing, 2018
The US Department of Education notes that, "in 1970, U.S. schools educated only one in five children with disabilities, and many states had laws excluding certain students, including children who were deaf, blind, emotionally disturbed or mentally retarded, from its schools." Now, they estimate that more than 6.5 million children and…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Policy, Curriculum Development, Educational History
Guile, David, Ed.; Unwin, Lorna, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019
"The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training" offers an in-depth guide to the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training (VET). With contributions from a panel of leading international scholars, the Handbook contains 27 authoritative essays from a wide range of disciplines. The contributors present…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Theory Practice Relationship
Ball, Stephen J. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in its "welfare" form? Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of "best practice" based on the methods and tenets of the "neo-liberal imaginary".…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Global Education, Educational Finance, Network Analysis
Fitting Teacher Education to the Needs of Rural Economic Development and Rural Middle School Reform.
Jiang, Youtang – Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, 1990
Points out there is an urgent need for specialized teacher education to promote the transition to modern agricultural production. Notes that, if more students are to attend middle and secondary schools in rural areas, there is a need for more rural teachers. Notes the close relationship between qualified personnel and economic development. (NL)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Wei, Suokang – Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, 1990
Suggests that the primary task of socialism is to develop a commodity economy in rural areas. Claims local education best meets the needs of local development. Sees vocational, technical, and adult education as the basic structure to initiate reform. Recommends making schools multifunctional; providing work-study structure and preemployment…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Educational Development, Educational Planning
Cong, Xiaoping – University of British Columbia Press, 2007
"Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State" is an innovative account of educational and social transformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-century China. It focuses on the unique nature of Chinese teachers' schools, which bridged Chinese and Western ideals, and the critical role that these schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Development, Educational History