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Learning Enrichment, Inc., Williamsburg, VA. – 1993
This document presents a study unit on Australia for secondary school students. A student reading examines Australia's cultural conflicts, history, 20th century development, and recent government policy. Australia's commitment to multiculturalism, the benefits of immigration, and the prospects for the future are also explored. The teacher's…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cultural Interrelationships, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Burns, Robin – 1980
The evolution of development studies as a formal academic teaching and research endeavor is traced. "Development" is related here to "decolonialization." Attention is directed to: the sociopolitical and economic aspects of the society; the cultural (educational and historical) aspects or frameworks within which particular…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations