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Author: Doug Porter
Publisher:
Published: 2012-05-09
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780415616348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Magarini Settlement Project in Kenya is typical of many large Third World rural development projects of recent years, not least in its failure to fulfil even minimum goals. This book explores the reasons for this projects failure, and looks at the lessons to be learned from this experience for development in general.
Author: Doug Porter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1317829301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Magarini Settlement Project in Kenya is typical of many large Third World rural development projects of recent years, not least in its failure to fulfil even minimum goals. First published in 1991, Development in Practice explores the reasons for this projects failure, and looks at the lessons to be learned from this experience for development in general. Challenging many assumptions and approaches, its provocative conclusions will generate much interest amongst development practitioners.
Author: Doug Porter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780415066266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on field diaries, interviews and documentation, this study of a large Australian aid-funded rural development project, the Magarini Settlement Project in Coast Province, Kenya, reveals how it was organized, what it was meant to achieve and the reasons why it failed.
Author: Charles Gore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1317831772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in1984. Regional development planning has grown rapidly in recent years, as both an academic specialism and a focus of policy and practice. Books and articles on the subject have proliferated, and all across the Third World governments have become commited to it, setting up large new departments and even ministries. Charles Gore argues that this growing popularity of regional planning in developing countries is profoundly paradoxical.
Author: Derek Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1136212671
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1987, Common Knowledge offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice. The authors present a study of education as the creation of ‘common knowledge’ or shared understanding between teacher and pupils. They show the presenting, receiving, sharing, controlling, negotiating, understanding and misunderstanding of knowledge in the classroom to be an intrinsically social communicative process which can be revealed only through close analysis of joint activity and classroom talk. Basing this analysis on a detailed examination of video-recorded school lessons with groups of 8 to 10-year-olds, they show how classroom communications take place against a background of implicit under-standing, some of which is never made explicit to pupils, while there develops during the lessons a context of assumed common knowledge about what has been said, done, or understood. This wide-ranging study makes an important contribution to the current debate about both teaching methods and the structure of education. It is essential reading for educationalists and developmental psychologists and has a clear practical relevance to teachers and teacher trainers.
Author: Pádraig Carmody
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1351375512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of how the field has evolved and the concrete impacts of this on the ground on the lives of people in the Global South. Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World covers the major theories of development, such as modernisation and dependency, in addition to anti-development theories such as post-modernism and decoloniality. It examines the changing nature of immanent (structural) conditions of development in addition to the main attempts to steer them (imminent development). The book suggests that the era of development as a hegemonic idea and practice may be coming to an end, at the same time as it appears to have achieved its apogee in the Sustainable Development Goals as a result of the rise of ultra-nationalism around the world, the increasing importance of securitisation and the existential threat posed by climate change. Whether development can or should survive as a concept is interrogated in the book. This book offers a fresh and updated take on the past 60 years of development and is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students in areas of development, geography, international studies, political science, economics and sociology.
Author: Noel Entwistle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 1175
ISBN-13: 1317510070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1990, the Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices was written for practitioners and students in the field of education and its related services and was designed to appeal to educationists no matter what their nationality. Focusing mainly on compulsory schooling, it provides summaries of the thinking, research findings, and innovatory practices current at the time. However, the book is also careful to present a complete picture of education and therefore includes a separate section for education beyond school which covers pre-school level, post-secondary level, and adult and continuing education. There are also other chapters dealing with aspects of organization, curriculum, and teaching in various forms of tertiary education. Indeed, each topic has been discussed by an acknowledged expert writing in sufficient detail in order to resist trivialization.
Author: Robert Bideleux
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-27
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1317703065
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. Robert Bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted ‘Stalinist’ strategies of forced industrialisation and rural collectivisation. He also reconsiders the powerful arguments in favour of the most feasible and cost-effective alternatives to Stalinism, including ‘village communisms’ and ‘market socialisms’. A highly readable and challenging study, this reissue will be of particular value to students with research interests in Development Studies, East European History and Politics.
Author: Hakan Hakansson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1317532430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Technical innovation in industry is regarded by many people as the best way of making industry more profitable. A great deal of energy and time is being expended by businessmen and by governments discussing how best to bring about technical innovation. This book, which was first published in 1987, argues that all concerned with technical innovation should bear in mind the importance of ‘networks’. ‘Networks’ are defined as the web of contacts which exist between suppliers, customers, and producers in industry. Drawing on extensive original research, the book discusses the need for co-ordinating technical research and development with suppliers and customers and examines in detail how this should best be done. This book is ideal for students of business and economics.
