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This volume analyzes the conditions that promote the creation and development of educational technology in advanced industrial nations and the subsequent transfer of that technology to developing countries. Four technologies: print media, television/radio, computers and operating systems are examined in the context of both industrialized and developing nations. The problems that the developing countries face when adopting new technologies for their educational needs, political and economic conditions and cultural characteristics are discussed.

Product Description: Records the life histories of three of the author's African students during her tenure as director of an education program in Africa. The collection allows Tanzanian youth to speak for themselves and provides glimpses into their home and school life.

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Product Description: This book contains many diverse and varied articles on the role of universities in developing regions in both the developing and the post industrial societies. The themes cover universal versus particular approaches to national systems of higher education as experienced in Malaysia and China; the development role of a university in peripheral regions as diverse as northern Sweden and southern Israel, the role of universities in training professional administrators and doctors; the potentially destructive and negative role of a university in contemporary urban American as well as Indian societies, and the potentially dangerous and beneficial consequences of advances of knowledge and technology...read more