Title: Tend the olive, water the vine : globalization and the negotiation of early childhood in Palestine /
Authors: Christina, Rachel.
Publisher: IAP-Information Age Pub.,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Early Childhood Resource Centre (Palestine); Early childhood education Palestine.; Children Services for Palestine.; Non-governmental organizations Palestine.; Education and globalization Palestine.; Culture and globalization Palestine.
Contents: History and context -- Civil society, education, and the world system : rethinking globalization theories -- Local capacity and local control : teacher training as a lever for change -- Reflection into action : community support and the empowerment agenda -- Paper policies, shadow policies, and local control : ECRC and national programming for the early childhood sector -- Filtering up? ECRC's influence on donor agencies and institutions -- Localization, globalization, and the reflective lens : implications for development from the ECRC case -- Epilogue: A dream deferred -- Appendix: Ethnographic methods in a case study of a nongovernmental organization.