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The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa
This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three “development decades.” Starting in the early 1960s, Czechoslovakia sent abroad hundreds of experts hoping to stimulate the development of local educational and scientific institutions. However, over the years, the development aid to African countries transformed into a special form of foreign trade, and distribution of experts turned into a profitable business. Yet, the tendencies towards “sustainability” and “higher retur...
Socialist Educational Cooperation and the Global South
Insights into international educational cooperation during Cold War. Brings together a variety of topics, perspectives and research approaches in a heterogeneous field. Cooperative education projects between established socialist countries and global south. Educational cooperation as important component of socialist globalization.
Mehrfachengagierte und ihre Engagementkarrieren
Max Schulte untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Politik und Zivilgesellschaft im lokalen Raum. Dabei fokussiert er mit Blick auf die Praxis von Engagierten die subjektive Perspektive. Im Ergebnis zeigen sich einerseits die enge funktionale Verflechtung beider Bereiche und andererseits die Herausbildung spezifisch lokaler Engagementkarrieren, die Politik und zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement verbinden. Basierend auf qualitativen Interviews werden eine Typologie der Engagementkarrieren und ein Modell der relevanten Einflussfaktoren entwickelt.
Gender Change in Academia
Editors’ Foreword The fundamental changes currently taking place in the national and international science landscapes can no longer be overlooked. Within those changes, reforms do not go ‘as planned’ but, as is always the case with processes of rationali- tion, have a series of unintended effects. At the same time it becomes incre- ingly clear who in this process are the winners and who are the losers, although this is still subject to fluctuation and change. This can be illustrated by two - amples from current events: Where the range of taught courses is concerned, as part of the Bologna Process the new structuring of student study paths and their organisation is aimed at unifying the...
Developing Africa
This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa. Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic viewpoints, this book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, it offers new and unique perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualises the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of colonial development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and postcolonial studies. Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, Developing Africa is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history.
Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness
This work brings to light the PAIGC liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau through the lenses of the educational structure developed during the guerrilla war.
Decolonization(s) and Education
New polities emerged during the processes of decolonization. The break with the colonial past was not only political, but also more general. While conventional wisdom defines education as a field of action reproducing society in time, decolo-nization placed broader and more radical demands on the field: to produce a new society. For this purpose, new forms of education and schooling were required, although the importance of inherited institutions and practices in education were still significant. This collection of chapters offers scholarly insights into this problem by covering different processes of decolonization and the challenges of education in the last two hundred years.
Assessment Cultures
Large scale assessment influences national and international educational policy debates and reforms. Assessment data is increasingly used as a government instrument. However, within the contemporary realm of the current global testing regime both the cultural and the historical conditions of assessment are often neglected. This volume is therefore devoted to the reconstruction of "assessment cultures" (interpretation patterns, discourses, instruments, practices) and their involved groups of actors. The contributions cover examples of Western European, Eurasian, East Asian, Latin, and North American as well as international settings and refer to epochs ranging from the early modern period up to the current context.
Classroom Struggle
Teaching large groups of children required the systematization of interactions. Models of organizing teaching attempted to systematize interactions and to control activities. The contributions explore diverse paths of transition towards modern classroom organization in different countries allowing transnational perspectives and comparisons.
