Conceptualizing Development and Underdevelopment: From Classical Modernization to Contemporary Post-Development Discourse

Development and Underdevelopment in Britain and Ireland

Many people, covering many academic disciplines, have an interest in what they would refer to as development, and approach it from the direction of what they conceive to be underdevelopment. This type of labelling customarily follows on from some narrower interest; either in a particular region (for example Africa, Asia, Latin America); or in a particular place (e.g. Nigeria, Brazil, China); or...

Contemporary Approaches to Concept Development

In the past several years, developmental researchers have begun to transform the vantage points from which we study concepts and their development. This essay begins with a brief and selective critique of two major psychological theories concerning the structure, representation, and development of concepts (the classical view and the prototype view). This is followed by a discussion of fundamen...

Rural Development in Contemporary Iran 1950-2010

A Critical Analysis of Political-Economical Discourse: The Case of Iran’s Post-Nuclear Deal Economic Development

CDA is an approach to the analysis of language use that, based on the claims of van Dijk(1995), has a social and ideological approach to discourse. Critical discourse analysis gainssignificance particularly with the analysis of political texts considering their role inestablishing force, identity, and political ideology. This study took an initiative criticalperspective towards the rather under...

Conceptualizing coaching as an approach to management and organizational development

Purpose – Recent debates within the literature and amongst practitioners of coaching have been focussed on defining the scope and practice of coaching as a form of organizational intervention that can facilitate organizational and individual change. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate about what coaching is by reviewing an emerging comparative conceptual framework of coachi...