On education and development : essays on the sociology of education / Yogesh Atal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction 1
1 Tradition and Modernity: Implications for Education
9
2 Education and Development
19
3 Education in the Changing Context
39
4 Education for the Poor and Against Poverty
60
5 Conceptualizing Human Resource Development
76
6 Theorizing Brain Drain
102
7 Why Moral Education?
120
8 Youth in Asia
128
9 Issues Relative to Transferring Knowledge in the Asia-Pacific Region
144
10 Education as an International Commodity 158
11 Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century 164
12 Social Sciences in Technical Education 175
13 Health and Social Sciences 184
14 Denial of Access to Higher Education: Admission of a Failure 196
15 Research Priorities in Education 203
Index 21

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