Changing international aid to education: global patterns and national contexts

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...  [+] Show more

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.