IKD: Innovation, Knowledge and Development
An Inter-Faculty Research Centre
Learning for Development
Investigators
Hazel Johnson, Gordon Wilson
Funding
A commissioned book by Zed Press (Development Matters series; Helen Yanacopulos series editor), 2008-2009.
Aims and objectives
This book in the Development Matters series takes a learning approach to development. The focus is on the everyday learning that takes place through development action, which may be intentional and structured, as well as informal and an outcome of different forms of engagement. The social dynamics of learning are important for individuals, for their organisations and for building coherent policy and action. The connection between these processes is not straightforward - the organizational and institutional embedding of new learning is often one of the biggest challenges for development, and is a recurring theme.
Publications
Johnson, H. and Wilson, G. (2009) Learning for Development, Zed Press: London. Translated into Arabic in 2012
A repository of IKD Working Papers and other research outputs can be viewed at IKD Publications.
Associated publications
Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2009). Learning and mutuality in municipal partnerships and beyond: a focus on northern partners. Habitat International, 33(2), pp. 210-217.
Johnson, Hazel (2007). Communities of practice and international development. Progress in Development Studies, 7(4), pp. 277-290.
Wilson, Gordon and Johnson, Hazel (2007). Knowledge, learning and practice in North-South practitioner-to-practitioner municipal partnerships. Local Government Studies, 33(2), pp. 253-269.
Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2006). North-South/South-North partnerships: closing the 'mutuality gap'. Public Administration and Development, 26(1), pp. 71-80.
Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2000). Biting the Bullet: Civil Society, Social Learning and the Transformation of Local Governance. World Development, 28(11), pp. 1891-1906.
Presentations and events
There have been many presentations at conferences and seminars about the themes in this book, based on the different research projects that have informed it.