Educating for Real: The Training of Professionals for Development Practice

Emerging trends in development practice place new demands on planning, engineering and building design. Changes in global, political and economic systems, rapid demographic changes, protracted ethnic conflict, political and economic reforms all compound already strained national development agendas. Added to these complex issues are the current commitments to the environment, gender, appropriate technology and human well-being. How should education respond? Are today's approaches to research and teaching appropriate to the realities in the field? How best can students be equipped, technically, methodologically, and intellectually? Why study in 'developed' countries at all?

This interdisciplinary selection of 12 essays explores topics central to the education of development professionals, in particular, planners, urban designers, engineers, and architects. The main body of the book is devoted to chapters which explore what needs to be learnt and how by each of the major disciplines involved in development work.

List of figures Foreword Contributors List of acronyms Preface 1 Inventing a new orthodoxy in education for development practitioners: an introduction NABEEL HAMDI 2 The getting of wisdom: educating the reflective 16 practitioner MICHAEL EDWARDS 3 Thinking practice: urban theory and practical method 27 EDWARD ROBBINS ... 4 Discourse and the undiscussed: developing a little 36 reflective theory for practice RICHARD HAYWARD 5 Educating urban planners 45 CAROLE RAKODI 6 What kind of planning? What kind of planners? 57 Rethinking planning education for the developing world ROGER ZETTER 7 Being a partner: educating for planning practice 77 JON ROWLAND 8 Development planning students learning in the field: 87 educating for real in post-apartheid South Africa CATHERINE LABURN-PEART 9 Education for sale: what do planning students from 101 developing countries need, and is education today delivering the goods? KYLIE FOX Educating urban designers: the value of training in 111 the UK AMR EL-SHERIF The engineer in development projects: a new role 124 JELLE VAN GIJN Educating engineers in water and sanitation 136 PETER KOLSKY and ANDREW COTTON Education in municipal and informal systems of solid 149 waste management

MANSOOR ALI, ADRIAN COAD and ANDREW COTTON Educating through building: architects, appropriate 163 technology and building production

MAURICE MITCHELL Educating field workers 183 ERIC DUDLEY Practical wisdom and the education of today's relief 195 worker HUGO SLIM