Education and Development in Afghanistan : : Challenges and Prospects / / ed. by Reinhart Kößler, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Fereschta Sahrai, Diana Sahrai, Anne-Marie Grundmeier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Aravena, Francisco Rojas,; Bittlingmayer, Uwe H.,; Bucherer-Dietschi, Paul,; Denton, Dianne,; Druwe, Ulrich,; Fazli, Khalil,; Goldenberg, Pascale,; Grundmeier, Anne-Marie,; Harsch, Stefanie,; Jawid, Asadullah,; Joma Hanif, Pohand Mohamad,; Jones, Adele,; Kässer, Heide,; Kössler, Reinhart,; Müller, Andrea,; Nashir-Steck, Sarghuna,; Naumann, Craig C.,; Noor, Laila,; Rohrer, Walter,; Ruttig, Thomas,; Sahrai, Diana,; Sahrai, Fereschta,; Sahrai, Laila,; Samar, Sima,; Schürer-Ries, Anke,; Stanikzai, Razia,; Wardak, Susan,; Wirz, Dominic,
• HerausgeberIn: Bittlingmayer, Uwe H.,; Grundmeier, Anne-Marie,; Kößler, Reinhart,; Sahrai, Diana,; Sahrai, Fereschta,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Global Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

After 15 years of military interventions since 2003, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory - especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economics. Despite numerous development initiatives, Afghanistan is still confronted with a poor security and economic condition. At the same time, enrollment numbers in schools and universities as well as the rate of academics reached a historical peak.This volume investigates the tension between these ambivalent developments. Sociologists, political and cultural scientists along with development workers, educators, and artists from Germany and Afghanistan discuss the idea that education is primary for rebuilding a stable Afghan state and government.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Outline -- Preface -- If you Want Peace, Educate for Peace -- Introduction: Education and Development in Afghanistan between History, Expansion, Hope and Disillusions -- I. Development and Education for Peace? Some Perspectives -- Development - Analytical Value and Ideological Baggage of an Elusive Term -- Local Languages and Their Role in Education for Development in Afghanistan -- Highly Motivated, Transnational, Heterogeneous, and Barely Interconnected -- Schools on the Frontline -- II. Teacher Education and Higher Education in Afghanistan -- Crisis and Reconstruction in Teacher Education in Afghanistan 2002 - 2016 -- Macro-Trends and Dynamics of Change in the Afghan Public Education Sector -- Private Higher Education in Afghanistan -- Teacher Education at the Faculty of Education at Herat University -- III. Educational Programs and Projects -- Training Teachers in Peace Education in Afghanistan -- From Education in Emergencies to Facilitating Change in Afghanistan's Teacher Education System -- Private Scholarships for Students from Poor Families at Herat University -- The Project of the German-Afghan Initiative with Nomads and Semi-Nomads in the Province of Herat -- How Afghan Embroiderers from Laghmani Discover Writing as a Tool for Communication -- History Alive -- The Visual Heritage of Afghanistan -- IV. Concluding Statements -- Afghanistan Today - Perspectives of an Afghan Living in Exile -- More Schools for Afghanistan -- Access to Education as an Essential and Urgent Need -- List of Authors