Planning Education Reforms in Developing Countries: The Contingency Approach - Softcover

Rondinelli, Dennis A.; Etc.; Middleton, John; Verspoor, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822309742 ISBN 13: 9780822309741

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This work, the first to apply contingency theory to education reform planning, is particularly useful in that it has applications to planning both in developing countries and in the United States and Europe. The basic approach applies to a wide variety of development programs and will influence project management and policy administration.

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About the Author

Dennis A. Rondinelli (1943-2007), the former Director of the Pacific Basin Research Center at Soka University of America. He was Senior Research Scholar at the Duke Center for International Development, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and the Glaxo Distinguished International Professor of Management Emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Rondinelli s research spans the United States, Asia, Central Europe, Latin America, and Africa. He authored or edited 18 books and published more than 250 articles in scholarly and professional journals and book chapters. He served as an advisor, consultant, or expert to the U.S. State Department s Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Canadian International Development Agency, the International Labor Office, the United Nations Development Program, and to private corporations. In 2002 he was appointed to a four-year term as the member from the United States of the United Nations Expert Committee on Public Administration and he was reappointed in 2005 for a second four-year term. Dr. Rondinelli received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Rondinelli passed away in March, 2007.

From the Back Cover

"Provides a comprehensive application of contingency theory to an important sector in developing countries, one that has to date rarely benefited from state-of-the-art management approaches. The guidance and lessons offered are also relevant to large-scale reform efforts in other sectors as well."--Marcus D. Ingle

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822309742
• ISBN 13: 9780822309741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183