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In the world of development practice, unequal power is increasingly recognized as a driver of impoverishment, damaged livelihoods, inequality, unsustainability, and so on. Hence politics, especially in the form of a challenge to unequal power, is no longer viewed as a problem to be by-passed so that technical solutions can be pursued. Indeed, in some quarters, such a politics is positively embraced.
After Development: Surplus Population and the Politics of Entitlement
Tania Murray Li
What kind of people do our students want to be? Who do we want to help them become? In the age of employability, we are at risk of spending so much effort trying to divine what the employers want that we forget to wonder what we want ourselves.
Employability Is an Ethical Issue
timeshighereducation.com
What we need to understand and do in order to survive seems to be continually outstripping our abilities.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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