Includes index.

Chapter1.Education and development : introductory ideas -- Chapter2. The nature of formal education in developing countries : access, quality, outcomes and inequality -- Chapter3. Economic development : human capital or dependency and socio-economic reproduction? -- Chapter4. Modernisation or the 'prismatic' society and institution? -- Chapter5. Political development and democratisation -- Chapter6. Education as harmful to development? -- Chapter7. Education, capitalism and socialism -- Chapter8. Education and green or sustainable development -- Chapter9. Education and religion -- Chapter10. Gender, education, development and the role of masculinity -- Chapter11. Education in emergencies -- Chapter12. Non-state educational provision -- Chapter13. Education, employment and vocational education -- Chapter14. Education and corruption -- Chapter15. Education, health and HIV/AIDS -- Chapter16. International aid to education -- Chapter17. Literacy and language .

Education and international development is now a very large field of academic and practical endeavor. It is also true that the main, though by no means exclusive, focus of the book is primary and secondary education.