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  • Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions

    by Abdul-Rahim Mohammed, Barbara Piotrowska, Izabela Szkurlat, Magdalena Szydłowska, Roberto Rocha Coelho Pires, Maria Paula Gomes dos Santos, Beatriz Brandão, Luiza Gomes Luz Rosa, Sergio A. Campos, Taly Reininger, Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, Cristóbal Villalobos, Mitzi Duboy Luengo, Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués, Oliver Meza, Anat Gofen, Elise Massicard, Subodh Wagle, Sneha Swami, Paulina Yunuén Guzmán Linares, Ayesha Masood, Ronan Jacquin ...
    In this book, street-level bureaucracy scholars from South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America analyse the conditions that shape frontline work and citizens´ everyday experience of the state.Institutional factors such as political clientelism, resource scarcity, social inequality, job insecurity, and systemic corruption affect the way street-level bureaucrats enforce rules ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms

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    This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Community Development

    Perspectives from Around the Globe

    Edited by Sue Kenny, Brian McGrath, Rhonda Phillips ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world. The book provides perspectives about community development as an interactive, relevant and sometimes contradictory way to address issues impacting the human condition. It promotes better understanding of the complexities and challenges in identifying, designing, implementing and ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

    by Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregon ...
    Series series Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools

    Edited by Michael Howlett ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook provides a unique, systematic and comprehensive overview from leading experts in the field of the policy-making tools deployed at all the phases of the policy process. It covers the fundamentals of both new and established policy tools – from regulation and public enterprises to subsidies and information campaigns, as well as new tools, such as social impact investing, nudges, ... Read more

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  • Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

    Edited by Arul Chib, Julian May, Roxana Barrantes ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The second volume in the SIRCA book series investigates the impact of information society initiatives by extending the boundaries of academic research into the realm of practice. Global in scope, it includes contributions and research projects from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The international scholarly community has taken a variety of approaches to question the impact of information society ... Read more

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  • Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development

    A Practical Guide

    by Harry Jones, Nicola A. Jones, Louise Shaxson, David Walker ...
    This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.It offers a power analysis perspective on the knowledge-policy process, illustrated with rich empirical examples from the field of international development, combined with practical guidance on the implications of such an approach. It ... Read more

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  • Accountability through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action

    by Odugbemi,Sina; Lee,Taeku ...
    Accountability has become a buzzword in international development. Development actors appear to delight in announcing their intention to ?promote accountability??but it is often unclear what accountability is and how it can be promoted. This book addresses some questions that are crucial to understanding accountability and for understanding why accountability is important to improve the ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of International Education and Development

    Edited by Simon McGrath, Qing Gu ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological divides that characterise a field that draws on many traditions. Leading and emergent voices from ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Knowledge in Inclusive Development and Innovation

    Edited by David Ludwig, Birgit Boogaard, Phil Macnaghten, Cees Leeuwis ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    This book develops an integrated perspective on the practices and politics of making knowledge work in inclusive development and innovation.While debates about development and innovation commonly appeal to the authority of academic researchers, many current approaches emphasise the plurality of actors with relevant expertise for addressing livelihood challenges. Adopting an action-oriented and ... Read more

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  • The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership

    Edited by Duncan Waite, Ira Bogotch ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Education
    A provocative and authoritative compendium of writings on leadership in education from distinguished scholar-educators worldwide.What is educational leadership? What are some of the trends, questions, and social forces most relevant to the current state of education? What are the possible futures of education, and what can educational leadership contribute to these futures? To address these ... Read more

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