Society, Culture and Development Research
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Nomads, Development and the Challenges of Education
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
Current paradigms of ‘development’ generally serve nomadic groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is minimal, and their mobility is usually constructed by the powerful as a ‘problem’, rather than as a rational livelihood strategy. Increasingly damaged eco-systems, shrinkage of natural...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Nomads, Development and the Challenges of Education
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
Current paradigms of ‘development’ generally serve nomadic groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is minimal, and their mobility is usually constructed by the powerful as a ‘problem’, rather than as a rational livelihood strategy. Increasingly damaged eco-systems, shrinkage of natural...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good
The Role of Universities in Promoting Human Development
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate public-good...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good
The Role of Universities in Promoting Human Development
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate public-good...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations
The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb
Series: Interventions
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the lives of North...
To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
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Bilingual Education and Language Policy in the Global South
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
This volume considers a range of ways in which bilingual programs can make a contribution to aspects of human and economic development in the global South. The authors examine the consequences of different policies, programs, and pedagogies for learners and local communities through recent...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Learner-centred Education in International Perspective
Whose pedagogy for whose development?
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms? Learner-centred education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and national governments. Arguments in favour of this pedagogical tradition refer to theories and evidence from cognitive...
Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Learner-centred Education in International Perspective
Whose pedagogy for whose development?
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms? Learner-centred education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and national governments. Arguments in favour of this pedagogical tradition refer to theories and evidence from cognitive...
Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South
Challenges for policy, practice and research
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of education, particularly for the most...
Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South
Challenges for policy, practice and research
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of education, particularly for the most...
Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Collective Learning for Transformational Change
A Guide to Collaborative Action
The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history. From fields to factories to offices, people have always asked how to make things better. This innovative book offers a step by step guide for recognising the need for transformational change and kick-starting a course of...
Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Collective Learning for Transformational Change
A Guide to Collaborative Action
The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history. From fields to factories to offices, people have always asked how to make things better. This innovative book offers a step by step guide for recognising the need for transformational change and kick-starting a course of...
Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development
A Global Analysis
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
In developing countries across the world, qualified teachers are a rarity, with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all. The supply of high-quality teachers is falling behind: poor status, low salaries and inadequate working...
Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development
A Global Analysis
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
In developing countries across the world, qualified teachers are a rarity, with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all. The supply of high-quality teachers is falling behind: poor status, low salaries and inadequate working...
Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South
Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future
Series: Routledge Research in Education
The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western...
Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Volunteer Tourism in the Global South
Giving Back in Neoliberal Times
Series: Interventions
This work explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of volunteer tourism in the Global South, paying particular attention to the governmental rationalities and socio-economic conditions that valorise it as a noble and necessary cultural practice. Combining theoretical research with primary data...
Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Education Outcomes and Poverty
A Reassessment
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty...
Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Indigenous Nations and Modern States
The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power
Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics
Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80...
Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Education Outcomes and Poverty
A Reassessment
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty...
Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Information Technology, Development, and Social Change
Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society
The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these...
Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Social Income and Insecurity
A Study in Gujarat
Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink old policies and institutions. This book sets out a new approach to the assessment of income...
Published June 1st 2010 by Routledge India