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Title

Education, growth, aid and development : towards education for all / edited by Linda Chisholm, Graeme Bloch & Brahm Fleisch.

Publication

Hong Kong, China: Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Chisholm, Linda.
• Bloch, Graeme.
• Fleisch, Brahm
• Comparative Education Research Centre.

Description

xv, 116 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

This book brings together leading authors in the field of education and development, who draw on decades of research and personal experience to assess what we have learnt from research over three decades on school effects, the utility and sustainability of target-setting in education, and the role of global and local forces in shaping change in African education. The chapters expose to critical scrutiny the targets and benchmarks associated with the Education for All (EFA) initiatives and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The book's contributing authors raise questions about the false expectations of target-setters, the failures of international development aid processes to assist the achievement of the MDGs, the denial of local context and history in the target-setting processes, the arbitrary selection of targets, the choice of definitions that enable manipulation of data to show they have been achieved, and the inability of individual countries to sustain reforms initiated with development aid without aid.

Series Statement

CERC monograph series in comparative and international education and development ; no. 5

Uniform Title

CERC monograph series ; no. 5.

Subject

• Education > Africa
• Education > Economic aspects > Africa
• Educational assistance > Africa
• Educational evaluation > Africa
• Education
• Education > Economic aspects
• Educational assistance
• Educational evaluation
• Africa

Note

• "This monograph contains five articles that were originally published in the Southern African Review of Education, vol. 13, no. 2 of 2007."--t. p. verso

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lessons from the past decades : investment choices for education and growth / Martin Carnoy -- Aid agency support for education : gasps between intention and action / Christopher Colclough -- Why some education for all and millennium development goals will not be met : difficulties with goals and targets / Keith Lewin -- Education, skills sustainability and growth : complex relations / Kenneth King -- The development state in Africa / Dani W. Nabudere.

ISBN

• 9628093991
• 9789628093991

OCLC

262583783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library