Education, learning, training : critical issues for development / edited by Gilles Carbonnier, Michel Carton, and Kenneth King.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- 1 International Education and Development: Histories, Parallels, Crossroads / Gilles Carbonnier , Michel Carton and Kenneth King -- 2 International Education Policies, Issues, and Challenges / Nicholas Burnett -- 3 International Investment in Education for Development: Public Good or Economic Tool? / Alexandra Draxler -- 4 Tertiary Technical Education and Youth Integration in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico / Claudia Jacinto and Ana García de Fanelli -- 5 Why Commodity Booms Have Not (Yet?) Boosted Human Capital: Bolivia’s Struggle to Create a Skilled Workforce / Fritz Brugger and Kathlen Lizárraga Zamora -- 6 Lifelong Learning in a Learning Society: Are Community Learning Centres the Vehicle? / Manzoor Ahmed -- 7 Exploring the Value of the Capability Approach for Vocational Education and Training Evaluation: Reflections from South Africa / Lesley Powell and Simon McGrath -- 8 China’s Higher Education Engagement with Africa: A Different Partnership and Cooperation Model? / Kenneth King -- 9 Western African Student Migration: A Response to the Globalisation of Knowledge / Denise Efionayi and Etienne Piguet -- 10 Boosting Higher Education in Africa through Shared Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) / Gérard Escher , Dimitrios Noukakis and Patrick Aebischer -- Index.

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Education: Fundamental human right or strategic tool in support of economic growth? How does commodity-dependence influence education policy and practice? What is the role of vocational training vis-à-vis university education in developing countries? Are MOOCs and Chinese cooperation a game changer for higher education in Africa? And how does student migration sit vis-à-vis the globalisation of knowledge? These and other questions lie at the heart of Education, Learning, Training: Critical Issues for Development , a collection of essays edited by Gilles Carbonnier, Michel Carton and Kenneth King, which explore 50 years of international discourse surrounding education and development. Drawing on examples from Africa, Asia and Latin America, the articles examine issues hitherto largely neglected, but of increasing relevance to researchers and policymakers.