ABSTRACT
Donald K. Adams specialized in international educational policy, planning, policy and evaluation. His distinguished career included a record of influential publications as well as teaching and advising of graduate students, many of whom went on to become educational leaders in their home countries and international development agencies. Throughout his career, Don wrote for a variety of audiences, both academic and professional. Early in his career, Don published a series of textbooks covering topics in international education, policy implementation, and education and national development. The foregoing review recognizes Don’s questioning of rigid human capital approaches from economics and consideration of broader social impacts of education on countries. The publications with the greatest scholarly impact over Don’s career addressed issues in educational planning. In 1999, Don consulted on an Asian Development Bank education sector study in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Don described changes in the role of government, purpose of policy and planning, role of strategic planning, and focus of administration.
