| Titre : | Education for national development : effects of U.S. technical training programs |
| Auteurs : | Albert E. Gollin, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Ouvrages |
| Editeur : | New York : Praeger Publishers, 1969 |
| Format : | 1 vol. (xviii, 280 p.) / 24 cm |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > analyse économique > analyse économique > étude d'impact [Eurovoc] ÉDUCATION ET COMMUNICATION > éducation [Eurovoc] RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES > politique de coopération > politique d'aide > aide au développement |
| Résumé : |
One of the most influential forces in international affairs in recent decades has been the emergence of new nations accompanied by the rising aspirations for a better life of peoples in economically backward areas. Partly in response to this, a new set of international institutions has evolved, linking old and new societies, the developed and the underdeveloped, in ways that have altered established usages and assumptions in international relations. Prominent among these are the programs and modes of assistance, bilateral and multilateral, which have served as the vehicles for meeting the development aspirations and needs of poor nations since the 1950s.
The strategic role that foreign assistance can and indeed must play in national development is a theme that is readily apparent both in the ever expanding professional literature on the problem and in the voluminous arguments and appeals of national leaders and international agency officials. In the continuing debate over the value of foreign aid, which has been a companion of the program in the United States since its inception, much of the so-called information on programs takes the form of critical exposés and negative assertions and is usually answered by positive testimonials and counter-assertions. Careful studies and analyses of the ways in which various types of assistance have actually been employed, what has and has not worked and why, are, by comparison, encountered much less frequently. The relative scarcity of more objective data on these issues is not surprising, given the magnitude and complexity of such programs, which makes the task of systematic research correspondingly difficult. Other factors include the bureaucracies the evaluative activities common to or sensitivity to sometimes divergent interest in results of such studies by the parties involved in the aid relationship, and various problems organization, and substance intrinsic to method to comparative or cross-national research. In spite of these retarding influences research or evaluative studies have been conducted on the operations or effects of a number of assistance programs. The results of one such effort constitute much of the source materials of this book, which is devoted to a detailed examination of the character, evolution, and selected consequences of a U.S. technical-assistance program called "participant training." In existence as an identifiable part of larger aid projects for more than two decades, this program seeks, through the education and training of foreign nationals, to develop the human resources needed for economic progress and the modernization of traditional social systems. More than 100,000 people from underdeveloped countries have taken part in this program and have received varied training in the United States or in other countries. Simply in terms of the number of people who have passed through it, participant training is the most significant of the various educational or cultural-exchange programs sponsored by the U.S.government. However, of greater importance to the student of the development process is the fact that this program has been designed as a recent Agency for International Development (AID) report states, to be “primarily a technical assistance effort to promote and transfer modern technologies and skills.” Thus, a study of its operation and effects can clarify a number of issues in the problem area of guided or planned social change, and, in particular, the role of educational aid strategies in national development. |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 005371 | RHE 157 | Livre | Centre de documentation du CERDI / Ecole d'Economie | Salle de lecture | Disponible |
