Education, Learning, Training - Critical Issues for Development

In Education, Learning, Training: Critical Issues for Development, renowned scholars and practitioners examine shifts in global education policy and practice over the last 50 years.

About the author

Gilles Carbonnier is Professor, Development Economics, at The Graduate Institute, Geneva; Editor in Chief, International Development Policy; and President, Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action. His research focuses on international development cooperation, energy and extractive resources governance, and humanitarianism, conflict, and disaster.

Michel Carton holds a PhD in Education from Geneva University. He is currently Executive Director of NORRAG where his research focuses on skills development policies in Western/Southern Africa and South East Asia. He was Deputy Director of The Graduate Institute until retiring in 2010.

Kenneth King is Emeritus Professor at the School of Education and School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh. His research interests focus on the politics and history of international education and skills development and aid policy, and most recently Chinese education assistance to Africa.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gilles Carbonnier (Editor), Michel Carton (Editor), Kenneth King (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2014
• EAN: 9789004281141
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28114-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: International Development Poli
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law