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Direct linkBaker, Irene – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2006
What can Montessorians learn from teaching in a war-torn country, and what can they hope to share with others in the process? These questions were much on the author's mind when she went to Sri Lanka in the summer of 2003. This article contains excerpts from e-mails the author sent home, chronicling her experience teaching two high school English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Catholic Schools, Single Sex Schools
Peer reviewedButler, Alan; Calvert, Philip – Information Development, 1986
Two articles discuss library administration and staff training at the University of New Guinea, and question the value of quantitative standards for the high school libraries of Papua New Guinea. The major problem in the high schools is identified as lack of experienced personnel to implement standards. (CDD)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, High Schools, Higher Education
Gueye, Mamadou – Forum, 1997
In Mali, the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) English department trains students for four years and awards them the degree of teacher of English as a foreign language in Malian high schools. This article argues that, if the ENS curriculum is to serve the needs of developmental issues, it will require transformation of the English program.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Blommaert, Jan; Muyllaert, Nathalie; Huysmans, Marieke; Dyers, Charlyn – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2005
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of classroom practices in a township school in the Wesbank settlement near Cape Town, South Africa. Focusing on the ways in which a multilingual and highly diverse student population confronts English literacy, we argue for a view in which norms are seen as emergent and contingent on occasion, place,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics
Download full textGulick, Thomas G.; Merkle, Melanie L. – 1983
An evaluation of the instructional materials used by high school and college students who participated in the Model United Nations Program showed that the program is uncritical of the United Nations (U.N.) and biased against the United States and the West in general. These materials are strongly promoted by many prominent educational professional…
Descriptors: Bias, Capitalism, Civil Liberties, Conferences
