Product Description: Over the last few decades, hundreds of multinational agencies have stepped in to offer financial and technical resources for adult education in developing countries. This text compiles and organises information about the wide range of programmes, methods, needs and sources worldwid...read more

Product Description: The book begins with an analysis of the investments in education made by developing countries in the expansion of their educational systems and the reasons prompted by such efforts. However, universal primary education is still a long way off for many countries...read more

Product Description: This reference includes 700 sequentially numbered entries gleaned from journals, institutions, and other bibliographies during research at major collections of Africana. It includes country and subject indexes.

Product Description: This book discusses how information and communication technology (ICT) can play a vital role in developing education and therefore developing communities, countries, and regions. Through examples of current research in developing countries, a number of highly relevant questions and topics are dealt with, such as: approaches to user involvement and participation in development * knowledge and its role in development, particularly in higher education * digital literacy and ways of developing it * pedagogic approaches * learning cultures in globalized education * teacher training and education...read more

Product Description: In this volume, African scholars engaged in research on the continent reflect on their recent and ongoing empirical studies. They discuss the strengths and limitations of research methods, theories, and interventions designed outside Africa to spur innovative research on the continent...read more

Product Description: "Community Education in the Third World" is the companion volume to "Community Education in the Western World" by Cyril Poster and Angelika Kruger (Routledge, 1990). It contains information on the development of community education from and about Third World countries...read more

A volume in International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice Series Editors: Elinor L. Brown, University of Kentucky; Rhonda G. Craven, University of Western Sydney; and George McLean, Catholic Universities of America Democratizing educational access and building capacity in developing countries and amongst indigenous peoples in developed countries may be elusive but are hopeful goals. Many developing countries are striving to reengineer their incoherent education systems at a time when they are most vulnerable, particularly with susceptibility to natural disasters, political unrests, and economic instabilities (UNESCO, 2007). Similarly, indigenous peoples in developed countries are seeking more control over education as they consider the long‐term effects of educational policies that have been forced on them. Research on education and social change in developing countries has a long history (Glewwe, 2002; Hanushek, 1995; Sider, 2011). However, there is limited research on educational capacity‐building in developing countries such as Kenya, Honduras, Haiti, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Peru, China, and Thailand. Further, the educational frameworks by which Indigenous peoples (Māori, Canada's First Nations, and American Indian/Alaska Natives) have been educated have some significant similarities to those encountered in developing countries. The compilation of chapters illuminates research and collaborative initiatives between the authors and local leaders in developing countries' and Indigenous peoples in developed countries' efforts to solve the complexity of social inequities through educational access and quality learning. The authors draw on theoretical lens, knowledge bases, and strategies, and identify trends and developments to provide the scope of educational improvement in a globalization context (Brooks & Normore, 2010; Jean‐Marie, Normore & Brooks, 2009).

Product Description: The reasons why governments of developing countries should put computer technology in their schools are highly controversial, but no less than the actual use being made of these comparatively expensive machines and their software...read more

Product Description: A positive contribution of formal education to development has become widely accepted and rarely questioned. Schooling has been generally assumed as a producer of creativity and therefore a causal factor for economic and social change...read more

Product Description: Crossing Lines analyzes the experiences of more than 25 education research networks spanning Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. Their history yields rich insights into the construction and maintenance of communication structures and processes that increase the utility, and the utilization, of education policy research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Demand-side financing is a pragmatic choice for introducing needed reforms according to the resources available, the local situation, and particular needs. This paper reviews World Bank education projects that became active in 1993-96 and that included demand-side financing components such as stipends, community financing, targeted bursaries, vouchers, student loans, community grants, and public assistance to private schools...read more

Product Description: The comparative education field has been slow to catch on to the potential of the kind of qualitative methodologies advocated in the sociology of education and in curriculum evaluation. This book may fill the gap in literature available which discusses the methodology of case-study research in education in a Third World context...read more

Product Description: En este libro se analiza por qué es tan importante la educación en situaciones de crisis, a la vez que se describe la situación en la que se encuentra la comunidad internacional en la actualidad, tanto en iniciativas llevadas a cabo, como en fondos destinados a tal fin...read more

Product Description: This study focuses on the problem of universalizing primary schooling in the developing world. In examining why this has not yet been achieved, the authors show that the educational and financial policies pursued by governments have critical importance, rather more than the overall resources available to them...read more

Product Description: First published in 1984, this collection represents the combined contributions to an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 1983. In assessing the complex relationship between education and development, it covers a wide range of countries in its appraisal and presents pictures both of optimism and pessimism...read more