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Education, skills and international cooperation: Comparative and historical perspectives

By Kenneth King. Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC), University of Hong Kong Press/Springer, Hong Kong/Dordrecht, 2019, 396 pp. CERC Studies in Comparative Education series vol. 36. ISBN 978-988-14241-7-4 (pbk)

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  1. King K. (1971). Pan-Africanism and Education: A study of race philanthropy and education in the southern states of America and East Africa. Oxford Studies in African Affairs. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

  2. The Phelps-Stokes Commission, active from 1920 to 1924, moved its focus from its previous study of the education of Black communities in the United States to individual countries in Africa. King was influenced by the Commission’s work in Kenya. Its particular importance lies in its advocacy of practical rather than academic curriculum activity.

  3. Coombs, P.H., & Ahmed, M. (1974). Attacking rural poverty: How non-formal education can help. A World Bank research publication. Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press.

  4. Illich, I. (1971). Deschooling society. World perspectives series, vol. 44. New York: Harper and Row.

  5. While many newly independent African countries were ambitious in the 1960s about effecting changes in their population’s attitude (e.g. in terms of how to be a good citizen) through what they were teaching in schools, Philip Foster (1965, p. 144) deemed this notion a fallacy. He held that “schools are remarkably clumsy instruments for inducing large-scale changes in underdeveloped areas”. Foster, P. (1965). The vocational school fallacy in development planning. In C.A. Anderson & M.J. Bowman (Eds), Education an economic development (pp. 142–167). Chicago, IL: Aldine Publishing.

  6. Coleman J.S., Court. D., & Rockefeller Foundation (1993). University development in the third world: The Rockefeller Foundation experience. Oxford/New York: Pergamon Press.

  7. “Sit by Nellie” refers to an on-the-job mentoring process. The expression encourages a new colleague to watch an experienced employee (“Nellie”), who will show her/him how to do a particular task.

  8. NORRAG stands for Network for international policies and cooperation in education and training. NORRAG News was a newsletter produced twice a year 1986–2016. For back issues, see https://resources.norrag.org/#search [accessed 1 March 2019].

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Ozanne, W. Education, skills and international cooperation: Comparative and historical perspectives. Int Rev Educ 65, 337–339 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-019-09775-4

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