How NGOs react
Subtitle: globalization and education reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia
By: edited by Iveta Silova and Gita Steiner-Khamsi.
Contributors: Silova, Iveta.; Steiner-Khamsi, Gita.
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomfield, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781565492578
Subjects: Educational change -- Caucasus; Educational change -- Mongolia; Educational change -- Asia, Central; Non-governmental organizations -- Caucasus; Non-governmental organizations -- Mongolia; Non-governmental organizations -- Asia, Central; Education and globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Championing open society : the education logic of the Soros Foundations network; title: The parallel worlds of NGOs, multilateral aid, and development banks : the case of community schools in Armenia; title: The free market in textbook publishing : visions and realities in Azerbaijan; title: On being first : the meaning of education decentralization reform in Georgia; title: From educational brokers to local capacity builders : redefining international NGOs in Kazakhstan; title: A voucher system for teacher training in Kyrgyzstan; title: Circulating "best practices" in Mongolia; title: The latecomer syndrome : beyond project implementation toward an education policy think tank in Tajikistan; title: Invisible and surrogate education : filling educational gaps in Turkmenistan; title: Quotas for quotes : mainstreaming open society values in Uzbekistan; title: Conclusion : centralist and donor-dependent governments : what's left for NGOs to do?