Democratization as Deliberative Capacity Building

Deliberative Mathematics Education for Social Democratization in Latin America

Latin America is committed to build more democratic social relationships as a part of its current democratization process. Mathematics education is a relevant set of social practices that could contribute to the consolidation of democratic social relationships in the school. This dimension of social interaction in mathematics education as a source of democratization is explored conceptually and...

Post-Soviet Transitions and Democratization: Towards Theory-Building

Conventional models of ‘transitions to democracy’ are incomplete and insufficient for the analysis of the regime changes in Russia and other post-Soviet societies, which go beyond the usual textbook cases. This article reconsiders conceptual frameworks for the analysis of democracy and democratization in the light of the experience of postSoviet political developments. The distinction between t...

Capacity building in Nepal*

There’s an old saying: “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.” But do we believe this? Many health care providers sacrifice their time and money to provide medical aid to underserved populations in remote environments. But is this helpful? Underserved populations need more than just another doctor. Short-term medical aid, with the exception of disa...

Productivity and Capacity Building

“Productivity and Capacity Building”, may not be far from the nascent realization of the primacy and centrality of humans in economic development and growth process of a nation an aspect of the problem that falls into the mandates of my organisation – the National Manpower Board (NMB). This, no doubt, agrees with the enfolding major developmental paradigm shift to a new programme with profound ...

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia