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Download full textUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Early Childhood and Family Education Unit. – 2002
This document consists of eight double-sided briefs addressing aspects of the field of early childhood education. Titles of the briefs are as follows: (1) "Early Childhood Care? Development? Education?," outlining the distinctions between these terms; (2) "Planning for Access: Develop a Data System First," highlighting Brazil's…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Care, Data Collection, Developed Nations
Ray, Douglas; And Others – 1983
This compilation's 11 chapters provide selected and revised papers from an interdisciplinary seminar to examine lifelong education with regard to an aging and changing population and changes in value emphases. Chapter 1 introduces the topic by addressing aging populations, lifelong education, economic decisions and planning, social implications,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Aging (Individuals), Economic Change
Pogrow, Stanley – 1983
Suggesting new policies for integrating technology into existing goals of the public schools, this book presents the argument that substantial educational improvements can be made through the use of computers. Chapter 1 contains an assessment describing the nature of technology events thought likely to occur during the 1980s. (A technology event…
Descriptors: Computers, Cultural Context, Delivery Systems, Educational Needs
Robertson, Brian C. – 2003
Over the last generation, parents have felt more and more intimidated by child care "experts" and have increasingly surrendered their role as the primary educators of their children. On the premise that theories of development, often colored by ideological positions on the family and its function in society, should take a back seat to…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Advocacy, Child Care, Child Care Effects
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Congressional Budget Office. – 1983
Prepared by the Congressional Budget Office, this report projects the level of care very young children and very elderly adults will require in the coming decades and analyzes some ways the nation might respond to these needs. Section 1 documents significant increases in the demand for care that will occur by 1990. Attention is given to factors…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Day Care, Demography, Early Childhood Education
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Direct linkOsborne, Bob; Shuttleworth, Ian – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2004
This paper examines the development of policies designed to widen access to higher education policy in the United Kingdom. These policies have evolved in the context of the devolution of political authority to the Scottish Parliament and Assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland, which has resulted in some policy variation. The paper examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Principles, College Environment
