Developmental Networks

Educational system was originally created to prepare the elite to rule, then to prepare all people (or at least white men) for informed citizenship, then to provide all students with an equal opportunity to prepare for college or careers, and now to prepare every child for higher education

• Development is the process by which people create and recreate themselves and their life circumstances to realize higher levels of civilization in accordance with their own choices and values.
• Development is something that people must do for themselves, although the help of others can facilitate it. If people are the end of development, as is the case, they are also necessarily its agents and its means.

Finally, successful developmental states have built their legitimacy on development results, ensuring that the benefits of development are widely shared and that the population is actively engaged in the process of formulating common national project of development.

Readings

• Student development in college : theory, research, and practice / Nancy J. Evans, Deanna S. Forney, Florence Guido-DiBrito
• Wikipedia Article