The Commonwealth
The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries. It is home to 2.5 billion people, and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. 33 of our members are small states, including many island nations. Our member governments have agreed to shared goals like development, democracy and peace. Our values and principles are expressed in the Commonwealth Charter.
The Commonwealth Secretariat is the intergovernmental organisation that supports member countries to achieve the Commonwealth’s aims of development, democracy and peace. It publishes authoritative, evidence-based research and knowledge products for policymakers, academics, professionals and wider publics across the world. Our areas of focus and expertise include small and developing states; environment and climate change; democracy, law and government; and social issues concerning young people, gender, health and education.
The Rebirth of Education
Lant Pritchett
Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. The first draws on Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's book about the difference between centralized and decentralized organizations, The Starfish and the Spider. Schools systems tend be centralized and suffer from the limitations inherent in top-down designs. The second metaphor is the concept of isomorphic mimicry. Pritchett argues that many developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations— much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one.Pritchett argues that the solution is to allow functional systems to evolve locally out of an environment pressured for success. Such an ecosystem needs to be open to variety and experimentation, locally operated, and flexibly financed. The only main cost is ceding control; the reward would be the rebirth of education suited for today's world.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286778
- Publication Date: Oct 2013
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Jacques Lacan: An Introduction To His Psychoanalysis
Eleni Boliaki
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789603995128
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Reinterventions in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
George Geroulakos
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603995401
- Publication Date: Oct 2007
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The Architecture of Lucknow and Oudh, 1722-1856
Banmali Tandan
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- ISBN: 9780955788000
- Publication Date: Mar 2008
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Christian VI
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788772170367
- Publication Date: Jun 2019
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History of Philosophy in Reverse
Sten Ebbesen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788773043790
- Publication Date: Jul 2014
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The World of Palmyra
Andreas Kropp
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773043974
- Publication Date: Jun 2016
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Food, Population and Health - Global Patterns and Challenges
Lars Jørgensen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773043998
- Publication Date: Jul 2016
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The Antiquities Trade in Egypt 1880-1930
Fredrik Hagen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788773044001
- Publication Date: Aug 2016
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Julius Thomsen
Helge Kragh
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773044018
- Publication Date: Feb 2016
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Positions and Professions in Palmyra
Tracey Long
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773044049
- Publication Date: Sep 2017
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Aspects of the Athenian Democracy in the Fourth Century B.C.
Mogens Herman Hansen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773044186
- Publication Date: Aug 2018
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Anonymus Cantabrigiensis
Sten Ebbesen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773044247
- Publication Date: Aug 2019
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From the Early Years of Phonology
Viggo Bank Jensen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788773044322
- Publication Date: Jan 2020
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The Western Woodlands of Ethiopia
Ib Friis
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9788773044407
- Publication Date: Feb 2022
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Exterior de las Gallinas
Carlos Sañudo
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9788409107544
- Publication Date: Aug 2019
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