Constructing Development Civil Society and Literacy in a Time of Globalization /

• Main Author: Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Education.; Political science.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Development economics.; Educational Policy and Politics.; International and Comparative Education.; Development Economics.; Political Science.

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-developm...

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.