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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development Killing Me Softly? /

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This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effect...

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Huvudskapare: Ackers, Helen Louise (Författare, medförfattare), Ackers-Johnson, James (Författare, medförfattare)
Institutionell skapare: SpringerLink (Online service)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017.
Ämnen:
Political science.
Comparative politics.
Africa > Politics and government.
Great Britain > Politics and government.
International organization.
Economic development.
Social change.
Political Science and International Relations.
Comparative Politics.
African Politics.
Development Theory.
Development and Social Change.
British Politics.
International Organization.
Länkar:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid'
  • 2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries
  • 3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'?
  • 4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change
  • 5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?.

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