Tend the Olive, Water the Vine: Globalization and the Negotiation of Early Childhood in Palestine (Hc) (Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies) - Hardcover

Buch 3 von 13: Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies

Christina, Rachel Rachel

 
9781593111670: Tend the Olive, Water the Vine: Globalization and the Negotiation of Early Childhood in Palestine (Hc) (Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1593111673 ISBN 13: 9781593111670
Verlag: Information Age Publishing, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Current international development wisdom promotes the inclusion of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in national-level policy making, in the interest of strengthening state-civil society relationships; supporting locally driven, culturally-sensitive development; and contributing to program and policy innovation. However, critics of increased state-NGO-donor collaboration argue that it actually dilutes the power of NGOs to act in the interest of the local populations they were established to serve.

This tension between the local and the global is connected to broader debates about the nature and role of contemporary educational development. Should education aim primarily at preparing citizens for participation in the global economy, thereby encouraging the integration of nation-states into a world economic system driven by the industrialized North? Or/and should it endeavor to develop in students and in communities, North and South, the ability to critique, resist and transform that world system? Ultimately, this is a question of who “owns” development – international agencies and institutions, or the communities being “developed.”

This book examines the complexities of these negotiations in a particularly complicated and volatile context (Palestine) and a particularly “hot” development field (early childhood development). The international community’s efforts to support early childhood programming in the developing world fall more broadly within the empowerment camp than do other development efforts, and -- in this case in particular -- serve as a source of important lessons about the dynamics of donor-state-NGO relationships, suggestions for improved development policy, and insights into forms of education which promote justice and equity in an increasingly interdependent world.

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Verlag
Information Age Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1593111673
ISBN 13 
9781593111670
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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