Education, Skills and International Cooperation Comparative and Historical Perspectives /

• Main Author: King, Kenneth (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education ; 36
• Subjects: International education .; Comparative education.; Professional education.; Vocational education.; Education-History.; Poverty.; Area studies.; Ability.; International and Comparative Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; History of Education.; Development Aid.; Area Studies.; Skills.

This book highlights some of Kenneth King's diverse contributions to international and comparative education, African studies and development studies over more than four decades. From his pioneering work on the first educational commissions to Africa, through his research on skills training in...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Education, skills and international cooperation
• 1. The politics of Negro education
• 2. Skill acquisition in the informal sector
• 3. Aid, research and education
• 4. Education and training for self-employment
• 5. Education, training and their enabling environments
• 6. The vocational school fallacy revisited
• 7. Africa's informal economies: Thirty years on
• 8. Re-targeting schools, skills and jobs in Kenya: Quality, quantity and outcomes
• 9. Skills and Education for All from Jomtien (1990) to the GMR of 2012: A policy history
• 10. Experience, experts and knowledge in Japanese aid policy and practice
• 11. African students in China
• 12. The geopolitics and meanings of India's massive skills development ambitions
• 13. Conclusions.