Research Catalog

Title

How NGOs react : globalization and education reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia / edited by Iveta Silova and Gita Steiner-Khamsi.

Publication

Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Silova, Iveta.
• Steiner-Khamsi, Gita.

Description

xiv, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Educational change
• Utbildningsreformer > Mongoliet
• Frivilligorganisationer
• Education and globalization
• Asia, Central
• Educational change > Mongolia
• Mongolia
• Non-governmental organizations > Asia, Central
• Educational change > Caucasus
• Utbildningsreformer > Centralasien
• Educational change > Asia, Central
• Caucasus
• Utbildningsreformer > Kaukasien
• Non-governmental organizations > Mongolia
• Non-governmental organizations > Caucasus

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Championing open society : the education logic of the Soros Foundations network -- The parallel worlds of NGOs, multilateral aid, and development banks : the case of community schools in Armenia -- The free market in textbook publishing : visions and realities in Azerbaijan -- On being first : the meaning of education decentralization reform in Georgia -- From educational brokers to local capacity builders : redefining international NGOs in Kazakhstan -- A voucher system for teacher training in Kyrgyzstan -- Circulating "best practices" in Mongolia -- The latecomer syndrome : beyond project implementation toward an education policy think tank in Tajikistan -- Invisible and surrogate education : filling educational gaps in Turkmenistan -- Quotas for quotes : mainstreaming open society values in Uzbekistan -- Conclusion : centralist and donor-dependent governments : what's left for NGOs to do?

ISBN

• 9781565492578
• 1565492579

LCCN

2007043514

OCLC

• ocn179102901
• 179102901
• SCSB-5841625

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries