Education and Development in Afghanistan: Challenges and Prospects

✍ Scribed by Anne-Marie Grundmeier (editor), Diana Sahrai (editor), Fereschta Sahrai (editor), Reinhart Koessler (editor), Uwe H Bittlingmayer (editor)

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Series: Global Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

After fifteen 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 poor security and economic conditions. At the same time, enrollment figures in schools and universities as well as the number of academics have reached a historical peak. This volume investigates the tension between these ambivalent developments. Sociologists and 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

Outline
Preface • Ulrich Druwe & Walter Rohrer
If you Want Peace, Educate for Peace: Education in Afghanistan • Francisco Rojas Aravena
Introduction: Education and Development in Afghanistan between History, Expansion, Hope and Disillusions • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Anne-Marie Grundmeier, Reinhart Kößler, Fereschta Sahrai & Diana Sahrai
I. Development and Education for Peace? Some Perspectives
Development – Analytical Value and Ideological Baggage of an Elusive Term: Some Considerations on Principle • Reinhart Kößler
Local Languages and Their Role in Education for Development in Afghanistan • Adele Jones
Highly Motivated, Transnational, Heterogeneous, and Barely Interconnected: An Explorative Online Survey among German Organizations Operating in Afghanistan: Characteristic, Commitment and Content • Stefanie Harsch & Uwe H. Bittlingmayer
Schools on the Frontline: The Struggle over Education in the Afghan Wars • Thomas Ruttig
II. Teacher Education and Higher Education in Afghanistan
Crisis and Reconstruction in Teacher Education in Afghanistan 2002 – 2016: From Emergency to Stability • Susan Wardak
Macro-Trends and Dynamics of Change in the Afghan Public Education Sector: A Concise Compilation and Contextualization of Key Data Variables and Progress Indicators • Craig C. Naumann
Private Higher Education in Afghanistan: An Overview • Asadullah Jawid
Teacher Education at the Faculty of Educationat Herat University: History, Recent Trends and Ongoing Challenges • Pohand Mohamad Joma Hanif
III. Educational Programs and Projects
Training Teachers in Peace Education in Afghanistan: Achievements and Challenges • Razia Stanikzai, Khalil Fazli & Dianne Denton
From Education in Emergencies to Facilitating Change in Afghanistan’s Teacher Education System: Achievements of German Development Cooperation in Afghanistan’s Education Sector since 2004 • Andrea Müller
Private Scholarships for Students from Poor Familiesat Herat University: A Small Substitution or Structural Compensation of a Governmental Task? • Heide Kässer
The Project of the German-Afghan Initiative with Nomads and Semi-Nomads in the Province of Herat • Sarghuna Nashir-Steck
How Afghan Embroiderers from Laghmani Discover Writing as a Tool for Communication • Pascale Goldenberg
History Alive: Cultural Education as a Key to Multicultural Consciousness and Understanding • Laila Sahrai
The Visual Heritage of Afghanistan: Photographic Testimonials between Destruction, Decay and Oblivion • Dominic Wirz, Anke Schürer-Ries & Paul Bucherer-Dietschi
IV. Concluding Statements
Afghanistan Today – Perspectives of an Afghan Living in Exile • Anonymous
More Schools for Afghanistan • Laila Noor
Access to Education as an Essential and Urgent Need • Sima Samar
List of Authors