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This landmark book offers a comprehensive analysis of how
development approaches have evolved since World War II, examining
and also evaluating the succession of theories, doctrines, and
practices that have been formulated and applied in the Third World
and beyond. Covering all developing regions, the book offers an
integrated approach for considering the entwined aspects of
development: governance, economics, foreign assistance, civil
society, and the military. With reference to carefully chosen case
studies, the authors offer distinctive explanations for why
development approaches fall short and systematically relate the
evolution of development thinking to current challenges,
identifying the strengths and weaknesses of key institutions and
the clashes of institutional interests that have distorted
otherwise sound doctrines and negatively affected development
practice. In identifying the dynamics that account for shortcomings
in past development attempts, and recommending a better integration
of doctrines across the entire range of inter-connected development
fronts, the book points to how development practice may be improved
to better advance human dignity.
This landmark book offers a comprehensive analysis of how
development approaches have evolved since World War II, examining
and also evaluating the succession of theories, doctrines, and
practices that have been formulated and applied in the Third World
and beyond. Covering all developing regions, the book offers an
integrated approach for considering the entwined aspects of
development: governance, economics, foreign assistance, civil
society, and the military. With reference to carefully chosen case
studies, the authors offer distinctive explanations for why
development approaches fall short and systematically relate the
evolution of development thinking to current challenges,
identifying the strengths and weaknesses of key institutions and
the clashes of institutional interests that have distorted
otherwise sound doctrines and negatively affected development
practice. In identifying the dynamics that account for shortcomings
in past development attempts, and recommending a better integration
of doctrines across the entire range of inter-connected development
fronts, the book points to how development practice may be improved
to better advance human dignity.
The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education documents
the generalization of southern values and institutions northward at
the close of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
The traditional emphasis in the South on vocational education (a
reflection of the Christian ethic of work as redemption, not the
Republican one of free labor), country life and living, racial
segregation, and the centrality of nature study as a source of both
science and religion, added up to a coherent vision that responded
to "undesirable" economic and social change in the urban North. The
survival of Southern cultural traditions, as antiquated as they
were, posed no threat to the plans of corporate progressives;
indeed, as the book argues, it facilitated them, and nowhere more
so than in the field of education. Modern educators wanting to put
into historical context relations of class, race, and ethnicity as
they persist in today's schools will find much here to inform them,
putting to rest, for example, false distinctions in the history of
school reform between a liberal-progressive North and a
conservative and reactionary South. The book will appeal as well as
to a popular audience of Americans curious to understand the
illiberal foundations of the modern liberal state.
The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education documents
the generalization of southern values and institutions northward at
the close of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
The traditional emphasis in the South on vocational education (a
reflection of the Christian ethic of work as redemption, not the
Republican one of free labor), country life and living, racial
segregation, and the centrality of nature study as a source of both
science and religion, added up to a coherent vision that responded
to "undesirable" economic and social change in the urban North. The
survival of Southern cultural traditions, as antiquated as they
were, posed no threat to the plans of corporate progressives;
indeed, as the book argues, it facilitated them, and nowhere more
so than in the field of education. Modern educators wanting to put
into historical context relations of class, race, and ethnicity as
they persist in today's schools will find much here to inform them,
putting to rest, for example, false distinctions in the history of
school reform between a liberal-progressive North and a
conservative and reactionary South. The book will appeal as well as
to a popular audience of Americans curious to understand the
illiberal foundations of the modern liberal state.
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