Tend the Olive, Water the Vine: Globalization and the Negotiation of Early Childhood in Palestine - Couverture souple

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9781593111663: Tend the Olive, Water the Vine: Globalization and the Negotiation of Early Childhood in Palestine
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ISBN 10 : 1593111665 ISBN 13 : 9781593111663
Editeur : Information Age Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

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? Orand 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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
Information Age Publishing
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1593111665
ISBN 13 
9781593111663
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
Éditeur
Christina Rachel
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