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Title

Education and training in the developing countries; the role of U.S. foreign aid, edited by William Y. Elliott.

Author

Elliott, William Yandell, 1896-1979

Publication

New York, F.A. Praeger [1966]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harvard University. Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education.
• Harvard Summer School Conference on Cultural Aid to Underdeveloped Areas (1960 : Harvard University)

Description

xv, 399 p.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Developing countries > Congresses
• Education > Developing countries > Congresses
• Technical assistance, American > Congresses

Note

• Consists mainly of papers presented at the Harvard Summer School Conference on Cultural Aid to Underdeveloped Areas, held Aug. 1-3, 1960.

Contents

1. Problems: The road to self-help / William Y. Elliott -- On distributing our responsibilities for educational training abroad / Don K. Price -- Questions concerning the interests of the United States in the economic development of emerging nations: governmental interests related to private interests / Edward S. Mason -- The world looks at the American program / Charles H. Malik -- 2. Education and training in national growth: The Peace Corps: problems and potentialities / R. Sargent Shriver -- The Peace Corps: nonadjustment as a training vehicle / Joseph C. Wheeler -- Educational assistance for developing nations: techniques and technology / revised by Jerome S. Bruner -- Education for attitudes in Nigeria: a suggested amendment to the Ashby Commission Report / W.R. Charleson -- A sea of faces: teacher training for Nigeria and the Ashby Report / Judson T. Shaplin -- Developing human resources: a new approach to educational assistance in Africa / Arnold M. Zack -- The military contribution to national development / Marshall E. Baker and Bruce L.R. Smith -- Pride and progress: a dilemma of nation-building / John D. Montgomery -- 3. The role of the American government: The need for guidelines to political development / Robert M. Macy -- The role of the government in the fusion of our educational training resources / Robert H. Thayer -- Communism and the global challenges to the United States / George V. Allen -- Approaches to quality in the leadership of international education / Saxton Bradford -- Priority programming policy and academic freedom / Vincent M. Barnett, Jr. -- American recognition of training needs in India / Randall B. Ripley -- 4. The role of the university: Motives for the participation of American universities in international education / John A. Hannah -- Recasting the classical mold for modern needs / Lincoln Gordon -- National purpose and the role of American universities in developing countries / Richard A. Humphrey -- Modernization in Asia -with an anti-Western drift / James P. Grant -- The role of universities / Edward W. Weidner -- 5. The role of the foundations and private enterprise: national purpose and pluralistic policy-making / John B. Howard -- The role of private organizations in cultural aid to under-developed areas / Kenneth Holland -- Training of men for steel in India: an example of cooperation / Stephen Blickenstaff -- The Creole Foundation and educational training in Venezuela / George Hall -- The roles of the foundations and private enterprise / John B. Fox -- Discussion of proposals concerning the roles of private organizations -- 6. Perspectives: The foreign-aid approach to training and education: problems and proposals / William Y. Elliott -- Appendix: International education and cultural policies and programs for the 1960s: philosophy, objectives, and illustrative programs / J.E. Slater -- Members of working groups on international educational and cultural activities in the 1960s.

Call Number

D-16 8148

LCCN

65018073

OCLC

188367

Author

Elliott, William Yandell, 1896-1979, ed.

Title

Education and training in the developing countries; the role of U.S. foreign aid, edited by William Y. Elliott.

Imprint

New York, F.A. Praeger [1966]

Added Author

Harvard University. Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education.

Harvard Summer School Conference on Cultural Aid to Underdeveloped Areas (1960 : Harvard University)

Research Call Number

D-16 8148