The Beautiful Tree (48 page)

5
See for example, J. Leach, “DEEP Impact: An Investigation of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Teacher Education in the Global South,” Education Paper no. 58, DfID, 2005,
www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/ict-teacher-education-no58.asp
; P. Murphy and others,
Enhancing Learning Opportunities in Africa: Distance Education and Information and Communication Technologies for Learning
(Washington: World Bank, 2002); C. Potter and A. S. F. Silva, eds.,
Teachers in Action: Case Studies of Radio Learning in South African Primary Schools
(Johannesburg: Open Learning Systems Education Trust, 2002); and R. Rhodes and S. Rasmussen-Tall, “Teacher Training via Radio Is Launched in Mali,” 2005,
www/usaidmali.org/article. php
?id=0079_EN&lan=en&skin.

6
See S. Mitra and others, “Improving English Pronunciation: An Automated Instructional Approach,”
Information Technologies and International Development
1, no. 1 (2003): 75-84.

7
Tony Halpin,
Times Educational Supplement
, February 5, 2006,
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article734920.ece
.

8
C. K. Prahalad,
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2004), p. 13.

9
Ibid., p. 37.

10
For more on Swift, see J. Tooley, “From Adam Swift to Adam Smith: How the ‘Invisible Hand’ Overcomes Middle Class Hypocrisy,”
Journal of Philosophy of Education
41, no. 4 (2008): 727-41.

11
References in this paragraph are to Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman,
Free to Choose
(Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1980), pp. 204 and 204-5.

12
Ibid., pp. 203-4.

13
Ibid., pp. 197, 196 (emphasis added), 196-97, and 197.

About the Author

Fresh out of college in the early 1980s, James Tooley went to Zimbabwe to become a public school teacher. Now an award-winning scholar featured in PBS and BBC documentaries, he has written several books, and his work has been covered in
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