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Changing international aid to education: global patterns and national contexts.

King, Kenneth; Buchert, Lene

Paris: UNESCO/Northern Policy Research Review and Advisory Network on Education and Training, 1999. 326 p.

Education on the move

International aid to education is changing and this book examines some of the new directions regarding international development cooperation, globalisation, international funding and technical-assistance agencies, as well as national responses to changes in international development cooperation. Contributing authors represent a cross-section of leading scholars and key officials in international funding agencies and in national bodies in the North and in the South. Part one is entitled 'Development co-operation in the context of globalization' and contains the following chapters: The new boundaries of international development co-operation / Jacques Forster; The future of international aid to education: a personal reflection / Aklilu Habte; Aid, international co-operation and globalization: trends in the field of education / Michel Carton; Education, development and assistance: the challenge of the new millennium / Simon McGrath. Part two is entitled 'New approaches to development co-operation among international funding and technical-assistance agencies' and contains the following chapters: Educational multilateralism at a crossroads / Karen Mundy; Education and development co-operation: a UNESCO perspective / Wyn Courtney; Development aid in education: a personal view / Stephen P. Heyneman; The Europeanization of aid / Wolfgang Gmelin; Education and geopolitical change in Africa: a case for partnership / Lennart Wohlgemuth; Changing frameworks and practices: the new Department for International Development of the United Kingdom / Myra Harrison; Redefining strategies of assistance: recent trends in Japanese assistance to education in Africa / Yumiko Yokozeki and Nobuhide Sawamura; Non-governmental organizations as partners in Africa: a cultural analysis of North-South relations / Juliet Elu and Kingsley Banya. Part three is entitled 'New directions for aid practice: constraints and opportunities' and contains the following chapters: Aid co-ordination through the other end of the telescope / Henry Kaluba and Peter Williams; Co-ordination of aid to education at the country level: some experiences and lessons from the United Republic of Tanzania in the 1990s / Lene Buchert; Aid co-ordination in theory and practice: a case study of Botswana and Namibia / Ulla Kann. Part four is entitled 'National responses to changes in international development co-operation' and contains the following chapters: Aid to South African education: a case of the reluctant recipient? / Kenneth King; Educational policies, change programmes and international co-operation: the case of Chile / Cristian Cox and Beatrice Avalos; Issues amidst assistance: foreign aid to education in China / Kai-ming Cheng; Development assistance to primary education in India: transformation of enthusiastic donors and reluctant recipients / Jandhyala B. G. Tilak.

Monograph; Foreign aid; Education; Bilateral aid; Multilateral aid; International cooperation; Educational development; Globalisation; Africa; Tanzania; India; China; Chile; Botswana; South Africa; Northern Policy Research Review and Advisory Network on Education and Training; NORRAG; Namibia

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