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Title

Educating for real : the training of professionals for development practice / edited by Nabeel Hamdi with Amr El-Sherif.

Publication

London : Intermediate Technology, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Hamdi, Nabeel
• El-Sherif, Amr.
• Great Britain. Overseas Development Administration.

Description

xvi, 207 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This collection of 12 interdisciplinary essays explores topics central to the education of development professionals, in particular planners, urban designers, engineers and architects. The text provides a comparative assessment of the issues from the perspective of developing countries.

Subject

• City planning > Study and teaching (Higher) > Developing countries
• City planners > Training of > Developing countries
• Higher education institutions Courses Environment planning

Note

• "Partly sponsored by the Overseas Development Administration."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Inventing a new orthodoxy in education for development practitioners: an introduction / Nabeel Hamdi -- 2. getting of wisdom: educating the reflective practitioner / Michael Edwards -- 3. Thinking practice: urban theory and practical method / Edward Robbins -- 4. Discourse and the undiscussed: developing a little reflective theory for practice / Richard Hayward -- 5. Educating urban planners / Carole Rakodi -- 6. What kind of planning? What kind of planners? Rethinking planning education for the developing world / Roger Zetter -- 7. Being a partner: educating for planning practice / Jon Rowland -- 8. Development planning students learning in the field: educating for real in post-apartheid South Africa / Catherine Laburn-Peart -- 9. Education for sale: what do planning students from developing countries need, and is education today delivering the goods? / Kylie Fox -- 10. Educating urban designers: the value of training in the UK / Amr El-Sherif -- 11. engineer in development projects: a new role / Jelle van Gijn -- 12. Educating engineers in water and sanitation / Peter Kolsky and Andrew Cotton -- 13. Education in municipal and informal systems of solid waste management / Mansoor Ali, Adrian Coad and Andrew Cotton -- 14. Educating through building: architects, appropriate technology and building production / Maurice Mitchell -- 15. Educating field workers / Eric Dudley -- 16. Practical wisdom and the education of today's relief worker / Hugo Slim.

ISBN

1853393339 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^96030358^

OCLC

• 34723459
• SCSB-10211731

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library