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  • Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South

    Theoretical and Methodological Lenses on Skills and the Informal Sector

    Edited by Lesley Powell, Adam Cooper, Trent Brown, Simon McGrath ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the Global South are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions.Underpinned by research undertaken in the Global South, this book discusses how we might better theorise, conceptualise, and critique what skills and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Skills for Human Development

    Transforming Vocational Education and Training

    by Simon McGrath, Lesley Powell ...
    Focusing on reimagining the purpose of vocational education and training (VET) and grounded in the reality of a small cohort of young South Africans and an institution seeking to serve them, Skills for Human Development moves beyond the inadequacies of the dominant human capital orthodoxy to present a rich theoretical and practical alternative for VET. Offering a human development and capability ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • 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

    $72.99 USD

  • Knowledge for Development?

    Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid

    by Kenneth King, Simon McGrath ...
    In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. This marked the beginning of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse this new discourse.Through an examination of four agencies -- the World Bank, the British ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Education and Development

    by Simon McGrath ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    This title explores the place of education in development debates and provides a systematic as well as a theoretical overview of the main approaches to education and development. It emphasises the fact that education is profoundly shaped by national and local cultures even if many issues are shared across institutions in different locations.Education and Development discusses different theoretical ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa

    A Social Skills Ecosystem Perspective

    by Simon McGrath, George Openjuru Ladaah, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Stephanie Allais, Jacques Zeelen, Volker Wedekind, Presha Ramsarup, David Monk, Luke Metelerkamp, Jo-Anna Russon, Bonaventure Kyaligonja, Glen Robbins, Scovia Adrupio, David Ocan, Kenneth Nyeko, Adoye Primo, Palesa Molebatsi, Themba Tshabalala, Sidney Muhangi, Maxwell Openjuru ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The transition to more just and sustainable development requires radical change across a wide range of areas and particularly within the nexus between learning and work.This book takes an expansive view of vocational education and training that goes beyond the narrow focus of much of the current literature and policy debate. Drawing on ... Read more

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    Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity

    by Malcolm MacLachlan, Stuart Carr, Eilish McAuliffe ...
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  • The Art of Public Strategy

    Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is ... Read more

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  • Ideas for Development

    by Robert Chambers ...
    Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire and the solutions almost too monumental to consider.Yet all is not lost. Robert Chambers, one of the ... Read more

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  • Navigating Complexity in International Development

    by Danny Burns ...
    International development interventions often fail because development experts assume that our world is linear and straightforward when in reality it is complex, highly dynamic and unpredictable. Things rarely happen in the way that they were planned. The dominance of logical planning models in international development therefore needs to be challenged and replaced by a complexity-based ... 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

    $38.69 USD

  • Public Policy and Universities

    The Interplay of Knowledge and Power

    by Andrew Gunn, Michael Mintrom ...
    Series series Elements in Public Policy
    Higher education is undergoing unprecedented transformation. In the global knowledge economy universities are of paramount importance to governments worldwide. This creates a strong rationale for an element exploring how the interactions between universities and the state are being reconfigured, while highlighting the role policy analysis can play in explaining these dynamics. Specifically, this ... Read more

    $20.49 USD