Education, Learning, Training ─ Critical Issues for Development

Editors Carbonnier, Carton, and King present students, educators, researchers, and policymakers with a collection of academic papers and essays examining fifty years of international discourse on development and education. The ten contributions that make up the bulk of the text are organized in three parts, covering education policies and development issues, shaping training and lifelong learning, and China, Migration, Africa, and massive open online courses. Gilles Carbonnier is a faculty member of the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Development Policy. Michel Carton is a retired faculty member of the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Executive Director of NORRAG. Kenneth King is a retired faculty member of the University of Edinburgh. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Gilles Carbonnier is Professor, Development Economics, at The Graduate Institute, Geneva; Editor in Chief, International Development Policy; and President, Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action. His research focuses on international development cooperation, energy and extractive resources governance, and humanitarianism, conflict, and disaster. Michel Carton holds a PhD in Education from Geneva University. He is currently Executive Director of NORRAG where his research focuses on skills development policies in Western/Southern Africa and South East Asia. He was Deputy Director of The Graduate Institute until retiring in 2010.Kenneth King is Emeritus Professor at the School of Education and School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh. His research interests focus on the politics and history of international education and skills development and aid policy, and most recently Chinese education assistance to Africa.