tailieunhanh - South-South Cooperation in Education & Development

Almost all developed countries have well-established science policy research centres providing training and policy advice, in addition to research. In many developing countries, however, this capacity is lacking, leading to fragmented, poorly coordinated science systems. | PART ONE Conceptualizing the South and South-South Cooperation Free download from Free download from ONE Introduction Rhetoric Realities and Reasons Linda Chisholm Free download from This book emerged from a collaborative effort to understand why South-South cooperation has suddenly entered the talk of major international donors in educational development. When we started the project South-South cooperation had just started to become a new slogan. But it was also clear that Northern agencies and donors were playing an increasingly powerful role in determining global and national educational agendas and were themselves engaged in promoting South-South transfer and cooperation. How did these two issues square up and what does South-South cooperation mean in this context Although we as coeditors of this book firmly believe in the value of institutional and individual cooperation across borders and boundaries we were skeptical about the contemporary uses of the term and wanted to explore a more critical approach than that found in much of the development literature. We approached the topic from different angles. One of US is based in South Africa and has had an abiding interest in relationships of educational inequality within and between nations and how these have changed over time both generally and in particular contexts such as southern and eastern Africa. From this perspective South-South cooperation can be seen as a form of collective organization to undertake activities that will improve countries unequal position on a global scale. But it is likely to reflect inequalities within and between countries at the same time that it promotes overcoming inequalities. The other is based in the United States and has been intrigued for years about the proliferation of traveling reforms that is educational reforms that are uncritically transferred or transplanted from one continent to another. Fueling into .