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  title info:
    title: Constructing Development
    sub title: Civil Society and Literacy in a Time of Globalization
  name:
    name part: Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 1.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 172 p. online resource.
  abstract: Former World Bank education specialist Bjorn Nordtveit argues in this groundbreaking study that a development project or policy should not be understood and analyzed as a linear system. Instead, he believes we should view it as a complex and dialectical organism. Basing his theories on post-development and complexity theories as well as New Institutional Economics, Nordtveit lays out a novel method of analyzing development – both on the ground and in the think-tank. Informed by detailed quotations from interviews with local people involved in a World Bank literacy project in Senegal, the author demonstrates how a project is entangled in the global economy, and how it constructs development through a discourse of gender equity, growth of the civil society, and promotion of the use of private provision of social services. Nordtveit’s new analytical methodology claims it is necessary for all development initiatives to first investigate whether the donors’ vision of development coincides with national – and local – notions of development. Only then can the holistic and complex interrelations between the project and all other development desires and services in the community be studied. Finally, the project’s cost effectiveness must be considered. The author also examines the strengths and weaknesses of ‘public-private partnerships’, which are being used ever more frequently by donor agencies to implement social services. Constructing Development is a tour de force. Going back and forth between the global and the local, it examines a World Bank women's literacy project in Senegal through a critical and integrated discussion of education and development, globalization, gender, civil society, and privatization. Nordtveit offers an insightful and innovative critique of development theory and practice, drawing on new authors and fields, such as Complexity Theory. His book is a must read across a number of fields including comparative and international education, adult educat…
  table of contents: A Sense of Development -- Conservative Economic Policies -- Civil Society, Women, Illiteracy -- A Literate and Enabling Environment -- The Partnership Approach -- Constructing Cost -Effectiveness in Development -- The World Bank, Civil Society, and the Market.
  note: by Bjorn Harald Nordtveit.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 379
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      title: Springer eBooks
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