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This paper examined the need for Business Education for Self reliance and Sustainable Development in Nigeria. It looked at the concept of Business Education and would go a long way in achieving self reliance and sustainable development. The researchers were of the opinion that would go far in harnessing a better economy where government and its constituted organs would stick up their major objectives. Therefore, Business Education becomes imperative in Nigeria following current trend of unemployment among youths who would always rely on government for sustenance. Recommendations were made on how to bring about a workable business that could bring about self reliance and sustainable development in the country. DOI:10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n10p113

Covering animal suffering both directly inflicted and indirectly caused by humans, this volume examines the role education can play in improving animal welfare and reducing the vast amount of animal suffering that has been and is currently created by humans.

Describes an approach that helps street and working children to see themselves as bona fide members of a democratic community and that provides them with tools to help them deal effectively with the difficult situations they face daily; developing countries.

PurposeContemporary arguments around efficient public management (PM) envisage a limited role of the state for efficiency, effectiveness and austerity. On the contrary, the PM of the Covid-19 pandemic shows the significant role and depth of administrative state in multi-faceted ways. In this context, the purpose of this article is to examine the administrative role of the Indian state and the extent of its "stateness" in the PM of the novel coronavirus pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis article is a bifocal study of both the national and a single sub-national case. Following mixed qualitative methods, this article draws on government documents, interviews and recent media reports to examine the reemergence of a strong administrative state in India in the context of PM of the pandemic. This methodology allows us to go deep into the cases and provide a robust understanding of the underlying processes within the state that throw open some compelling insights on the PM of the pandemic.FindingsThis article shows the reemergence of a strong administrative state in multiple ways. It demonstrates that state's administrative capacity is an outcome of both ideas within the state and its rationality that shapes policy strategies and planning. Further, a combination of learning, puzzling and powering plays a critical role in pandemic management. Exploring pandemic-induced state capacity in India sheds light on the administrative state's emergence, extent and function in an emerging developing country setting.Research limitations/implicationsOne of the major challenges of this study is the evolving nature of the pandemic. In this light, the study limits its focus to the earliest stage of the pandemic. Revisiting this paper in future would provide a more comprehensive picture. Furthermore, the study is limited to the national and a single sub-national case. This research will gain from including more sub-national and cross-country comparisons to test some of the conjectures presented in this paper.Practical implicationsThis article shows that the state as a conceptual variable needs to be taken seriously to understand and explain the PM strategy, especially in times of crisis. It also persuades us to better understand the political power of "ideas" within the state to explain policy outcomes and evolving PM strategies.Originality/valueThis article seeks to push the frontiers of research on state capacity and PM by exploring how social learning and puzzling come together to consolidate policy paradigms. Through the lens of PM of the current Covid-19 pandemic by the Indian state, this article reflects on the reemergence of the administrative state. It examines the long-term ramifications of such a revival for both practice and theory of state capacity and PM in a large, diverse democracy, such as India.

This book explores the multifaceted dynamics between state and non-state actors in public policy during and after conflict in the Middle East and Africa. It offers case studies and policy-relevant ideas for conflict-affected areas to move forward in a more sustainable manner.

This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and reveals the complexity of state-society relations as they unfold in the everyday context of local life. It does so by exploring specific configurations of governance practices, development activities and discourses, and bureaucratic representations that are rooted in the ongoing contingencies of power relations and social contexts. The book places the lives, subjectivities, and experiences of farmers, pastoralists, women, traders, shopkeepers, daily labourers, the rural youth, state functionaries, and NGO workers in two rural localities in different regions of Ethiopia at the centre of ethnographic enquiry. The book offers a rich and compelling ethnographic account while making distinctive theoretical contributions to the analysis of the state in Africa. It foregrounds the Ethiopian experience as an important component of the politics of everyday life in Africa, at the same time as making important linkages between Ethiopia and politics in the rest of the continent that are often overlooked in Ethiopia-specific studies. Providing an invaluable insight into the workings of the state in Ethiopia, it will be of interest to scholars of state, society, development, governance, and African politics.

The neo-orthodox, or political-economic approach to a theory of the state, which developed in Berlin and West Germany between 1970 and 1975, provides one of the major theoretical paradigms for the analysis of the capitalist state. It derives a theoretical conception of the form, function, and limits of the bourgeois state from Marx's analysis of capital. The paper surveys several major contributions to neo-orthodox state theory made by Müller and Neusüss, Altvater, and Blanke, Jurgens, and Kastendieck. It then provides a critique of these neo-orthodox theories, and compares them with Poulantzas' more familiar class-political formulation. The paper concludes with a discussion of the present controversy and offers some suggestions for possible new ways to approach the analysis of the state in capitalist societies.

Education and Social Work focuses on the relationship between those who are engaged in the operation of the educational system and those who are concerned mainly with individual work. This book discusses the relevance of the link between home and school. Organized into six chapters, this book begins with an overview of the various principles on which the two disciplines are based and explains the motivating factors in social work and education. This text then explains the need for a more pervasive approach to the problems presented by lack of coordination. Other chapters consider the establish

This paper argues for the need to develop engineering students with high levels of technical competency as well as critical awareness for the realities of working and living ethically in the global community. Drawing on social constructivist principles of learning (Vygotsky, 1978) and a pedagogy of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996, 2000), the paper explores new approaches for engineering education to meet the challenges embedded in current undergraduate programs and professional accreditation standards. To improve the ability of engineers to contribute to social and environmental justice, there needs to be a rethinking of engineering curriculum and pedagogy to develop engineering literacies that encompass a social and technical focus.