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

• 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 years of military interventions, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory - especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economy. Despite numerous initiatives, Afghanistan is still confronted with a poor securit...

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