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Experts under fire

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Abstract

  1. A quip heard in Africa: ‘Ne dites pas assistance technique mais assistance pique-nique.’ (Don't say technical assistance, say ‘picnic’-al assistance.)

  2. See G. Benveniste and W. F. Ilchman,Agents of Change: Professionals in Developing Countries, New York, N.Y., Praeger, 1968, especially p. 30–8 and 50–8, and H. M. Phillips,Educational Co-operation Between Developed and Developing Countries, New York, N.Y., Praeger, 1976.

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  3. Adam Curle, ‘The Devil's Advocate View’,Agents of Change … op. cit. Professionals in Developing Countries, New York, N.Y., Praeger, 1968, p. 50.

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  4. On the psychology of professionals abroad, see W. F. Ilchman and G. Benveniste, ‘Dilemmas of Professionals Abroad’,Agents of Change … op. cit. Professionals in Developing Countries, New York, N.Y., Praeger, 1968 p. 33–5.

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  5. op. cit. On the psychology of professionals abroad, see W. F. Ilchman and G. Benveniste, ‘Dilemmas of Professionals Abroad’,Agents of Changes … op. cit. Professionals in Developing Countries, New York, N.Y., Praeger, 1968, p. 55.

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  6. A. Curle alludes to the title of this work at the beginning of his article: ‘I am bothered by the concept “agents of change” itself.’ op. cit. On the psychology of professionals abroad, see W. F. Ilchman and G. Benveniste, ‘Dilemmas of Professionals Abroad’,Agents of Change … op cit. Professionals in Developing Countries, New York, N.Y., Praeger, 1968, p. 55.

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  7. D. Seers, ‘Why Visiting Economists Fail’,The Journal of Political Economy (The University of Chicago Press), Vol. LXX, No. 4, August 1962, p. 329.

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  8. Development of Co-operation, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 1974.

  9. Report of a panel of counsellors convened by Unesco in the Spring of 1975 inMoving Towards Change: Some Thoughts on the New International Economic Order, p. 110, Unesco, 1976.

  10. See, for example, inAgents of Change …, op. cit., the contributions by G. F. Papanek, K. R. Hansen and A. Medino on the training of professionals for work abroad.

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    Jacques Bousquet (Unesco's chief educational adviser)

  2. National Centre for Lifelong Education in Bouaké, (Ivory Coast)

    Jacques Bousquet (Unesco's chief educational adviser)

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  1. Jacques Bousquet
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Has participated in numerous educational planning missions in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Author of Economía Política de la Educaciónand La Problemática de las Reformas Educativas.

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Bousquet, J. Experts under fire. Prospects 6, 595–602 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02279151

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