Education and Training for Rural Transformation: Skills, Jobs, Food and Green Future to Combat Poverty (SAGE China Studies)

This book explores how vocational education along with training and skill development are vital to building a sustainable future.;Foreword by Qian Tang Acknowledgements Overview: Challenges and Policy Implications Skills and Jobs for Rural Transformation -- Why and What Education, Training and Skills to Combat Rural Poverty Skills and Jobs for Food Security and Agricultural Development Skills and Jobs for a Green Future Roles, Responsibilities and Challenges: A Framework for Policy and Action ANNEXURES Good Practices, Measurement of Skills, Statistical Tables Annex I Good Practices in Skills Development: Selected Case Studies Annex II Measurement of Skills for People in Rural Transformation Annex III Statistical Tables References Acronyms Glossary Index This book explores how vocational education along with training and skill development are vital to building a sustainable future. This book explores how education along with training and skill development are vital to building a sustainable future. While half of the world's population now is urban, in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the proportions of rural people range from 55 to 70 per cent. In this context, education is seen as a key instrument for shaping and fulfilling the goal of rural transformation. The book focuses on the links between education and rural transformation, seeking to underscore the inexorable forces of change rural communities face and how education and training, by equipping people with appropriate knowledge and skills and fostering values of human dignity, can expand their choices and capabilities to exercise these choices. UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education (INRULED) decided to examine closely the issues of skill development within its broad mission of exploring concepts, policy and practices in education for rural transformation. The confluence of global forces and national situations, especially in the poorer countries and regions of the world, prompted UNESCO-INRULED to take this decision. These forces and factors include persistent and growing gaps between supply and demand for jobs and employment for young people, growing vulnerabilities and risks for poor people, threats to food security, and the urgency of building a sustainable green future Foreword by Qian Tang< br /> Acknowledgements< br /> Overview: Challenges and Policy Implications< br /> Skills and Jobs for Rural Transformation -- Why and What< br /> Education, Training and Skills to Combat Rural Poverty< br /> Skills and Jobs for Food Security and Agricultural Development< br /> Skills and Jobs for a Green Future< br /> Roles, Responsibilities and Challenges: A Framework for Policy and Action< br /> ANNEXURES< br /> Good Practices, Measurement of Skills, Statistical Tables< br /> Annex I Good Practices in Skills Development: Selected Case Studies< br /> Annex II Measurement of Skills for People in Rural Transformation< br /> Annex III Statistical Tables< br /> References< br /> Acronyms< br /> Glossary< br /> Index< br /> Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Tables, Figures and Boxes 8 FOREWORD 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 12 EDUCATION AND TRAINING FORRURAL TRANSFORMATION 14 Chapter 1 59 Chapter 2 77 Chapter 3 115 Chapter 4 143 Chapter 5 171 Annexures 211 ANNEXURE I 214 ANNEXURE II 263 ANNEXURE III 272 References 314 Acronyms 322 Glossary 323 Index 329 About the Authors 336 Wang Li, Manzoor Ahmed, Qutub Khan, Meng Hongwei. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 301-308) And Index.