The education Millennium Development Goals have been highly influential on the priorities for education and concentrated policy efforts on numbers of girls enrolled in public sector schools offering basic education. This focus has been justified by human capital calculations of the social rates of return to basic schooling. This concern with…

Schools have a seminal role in preparing a society's children for their adult responsibilities as workers, parents, friends, neighbors, and citizens. The United States, countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Brazil, India, South Africa, and other multiethnic democratic nation-states have increasingly diverse…

The present work is both an operational guidebook which translates research findings into specific working guidelines for using sensitivity training and the laboratory method, and an evaluative research report on the experience of the Young Mens Christian Association in developing human resources among both adults and youth. Internal evaluations…