This article explains the relationship between economic growth and food security as a pre-requisite to enhancing food security. Interventions that promote food security at different levels require financial.
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Development Studies, Food Security
Modern Western Education was dominated by educational philosophers and psychologists whose ideas are biased toward the active and learner-centred teaching-learning methods.
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Educational Administration, History of Education, Philosophy of Education
Introduction Andrea Gunder Frank, like Baran, was interested in identifying the causes of underdevelopment, but unlike his predecessor he did not lay great emphasis on the social classes and their control over the economic surplus. Rather, Frank argued that the crucial mechanism for extraction of the surplus was trade and other kinds of exchange of
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies
There are a couple of principles of good industrial relations, but all depend on the efficiency of the players in the system. Here are the major principles: The willingness and ability of management and trade unions to deal with the problems freely, independently and with responsibility Recognition of collective bargaining. Desirability of associations of workers
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Development Studies, Industrial Relations
Social development is the process through which children learn what behavior is acceptable and expected. A set of standards is imposed on the child at birth that reflects values of the family and the society in which the child lives. Indeed enhancing social intelligence builds a set of skills that may be among the most
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Educational Psychology, Psychology
The role of trade unions in industrial relations is very crucial maintaining smooth industrial relations. It is true that the unions have to protect and safeguard the interests of the workers through collective bargaining. Responsibilities of Trade Unions in maintaining industrial relations But at the same time, they have equal responsibility to see that the organizations
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Development Studies, Industrial Relations
Collective Bargaining process is a mutual ‘give and take’ transactional relationship between representatives of two institutions that is workers on one side and the employing organization on the other to the mutual benefit of both. In the unionized organization, the collective bargaining process can be thought of as a complex flow of events that occur in
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Development Studies, Industrial Relations
The origin of Theatre for Development can be traced back in the late 1970s as a social movement that disseminated information on issues of development at the grassroots level in the developing world. It was an offshoot of thetravelling theatre movement but nurtured by the adult education movement. Chikwakwa travelling theatre in Zambia and the
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Development Studies, Drama
Theatre for Development refers to the theatre for community animation theatre for integrated development, theatre for the marginalised, theatre for rural development and simply popular theatre. It is a form of theatre that combines research, entertainment and education. In 1977, popular theatre workers organized a Latin American Conference on Popular Theatre, which was attended by
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Development Studies, Drama
TFD is rooted in the theory of conscientization attributed to the Brazilian Adult Educator, Paulo Freire who worked with the poor people in North-Eastern Brazil in the province called Recife. Most of his thinking arose from that relationship with the poor. You will need to read Pedagogy of the Oppressed a small hut complex book that
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies