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Development, Planning, and Implementation: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice
- Instructors
- Prof. Bishwapriya Sanyal, Cauam Ferreira Cardoso
- Term
- Fall 2017
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 11.S943 Development, Planning, and Implementation: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice, Fall 2017, Prof. Bishwapriya Sanyal, Cauam Ferreira Cardoso — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Overview of conventional theories of development, planning, and implementation
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Lecture 3: Implemenation puzzle: One modernity or multiple modernities?
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Lecture 4: Implemenation puzzle: Assessment of development and planning efforts: What has worked and what has not?
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Lecture 5: Implemenation puzzle: Bottom-up versus top-down development?
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Lecture 6: Implemenation puzzle: Comprehensive versus incremental planning
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Lecture 7: Implementation puzzle: Under what conditions do public sector institutions perform well?
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Lecture 8: Implementation puzzle: Is politics a hindrance to, or essential for planning?
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Lecture 9: Implementation puzzle: How do development professionals define what is ethical practice?
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Lecture 10: Implementation puzzle: Rigidity versus flexibility
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Lecture 11: Implementation puzzle: Modes of evaluation: What is useful knowledge for practitioners?
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Lecture 12: Implementation puzzle: The social construction of learning institutions
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Lecture 13: Implementation puzzle: Surety of purpose or humility of not knowing the answer?
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Bishwapriya Sanyal, Cauam Ferreira Cardoso, 11.S943 Development, Planning, and Implementation: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice, Fall 2017.
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