Changing Perspectives of Education for Development: emergent issues concerning substance and location of training programmes for third world development workers

Since the early 1950s a number of institutions in the socalled rich countries have been set up or adapted to offer programmes of training, sometimes combined with research, geared to the needs of people intending to work in Third World countries. Some of these institutions have tended to cater mainly or primarily to students coming to them from the Third World. Several of them have benefited by special scholarship provisions, provided by rich-country governments, foundations, international agencies and the like

The nation and the ideal city

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The Study of Development and the Alleged Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach

One of the first items on the agenda for development studies, as perceived from the vantage point of The Institute of Social Studies, deals with disciplines and interdisciplinarity. The customary reading of this problem is basically simple. Inasmuch as development is total or comprehensive, affecting entire societies and groups of societies, there is no reason to expect that any particular discipline, any particular specialization of the social sciences or of science, is likely to succeed in mastering it

On Social Development: The Social Welfare Approach

The well-established preponderance of the economic approach to development corresponds to the dominance of an economistic "philosophie vécue" - a view of life in general and of development in particular. The prospect of this typically modern-Western thought complex is dim. Doubts are voiced on all sides, but at present it is solidly entrenched in liberalism as much as in Marxism, in countless institutions and in many routines of thinking and acting. Ours is an interesting period

Culture and Development; The Prospects of an Afterthought

The purpose of this paper is to assess the prospects and likely implications of what is currently hailed as a new vogue, namely the interest in culture and its significance for development