Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students interviewed feel that Harvard's most important role concerning South Africa is inherent in its primary function to educate. The most important thing Harvard can do, they say, is teach its students all of the political and economic dynamics of the country. Says Benatar. "They're ally don't have much of a curriculum here on South Africa at all. If they're going to become involved with it, the University must provide more information about the country. Some one up there in the Harvard administration should know better...
This type of assistance actually started 30 years ago, when the Business School sent experts abroad to teach management techniques to try and stabilize the nascent economics of post-war France and Italy. But the bulk of the work, in the ensuing era, sought to change the world through more direct means...
...Mason fellows come from a strictly academic background, a substantial number of the program graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with K-School professors often prompt them to ask for help in setting up programs based on their K-School experience...
Zeckhauser noted that before the Harvard visitors came, training at universities in Indonesia was so theoretical that "Indonesian PhD's graduate without the slightest idea of how to do anything." He adds, "We're starting to teach them how to think well...
...value placed upon theoretical expertise at Third World universities can have adverse effects. Zeckhauser recalls from an experience in Indonesia that academics at the university tended to teach the most difficult material they knew--often to the bewilderment of the students--because they thought that the most advanced material would advance the country the most. "They tended to emphasize prestige over practicality...