Remarks that the Kenyan government and parents of school-age children are overburdened by their responsibility for financing secondary and higher education, stating that additional sources of funding must be found. Suggests alternative avenues such as other public sources, private sources, sources within the educational system itself, and sources…

Discusses existing systems of industrial education in Arab-Islamic countries, surveys Arab-Islamic culture, examines existing models in relation to their cultural appropriateness, and proposes a model for a kind of industrial university, the Djamiat Al-Sinah, which would be devoted to the culture specific vocational/industrial education of…

Nations cannot survive unless they promote education for all people. The paper examines why education for females is still neglected worldwide. Problems include lack of government commitment, cultural values, poverty and child labor, and the structure of educational systems. The role of Education International in improving the situation is…

Discusses the introduction of art and physical education into the curriculum of mass schooling. Explains why the two subjects diffused more slowly than others into educational systems outside the West. Attributes slow diffusion before World War II to the association of these subjects with colonialism. Concludes that relating the subjects to…

Explores why some European countries are much more eager than the United States to endorse international environmental treaties and the roles history, culture, economics, and geography play. Influential policymakers throughout Austria, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are interviewed. (12 references) (Author/MCO)

This article describes problems affecting special education services in developing counties where economic challenges have harsh consequences on health, education, and welfare and force difficult ethical choices. Special education efforts in Ecuador are used as examples to describe inherent problems and give inspiration toward developing potential…

This paper offers reflections on the role of the agricultural university in developing nations by analyzing in turn the factors that contribute to stagnation of these universities. It first takes up the policy conditions that govern the broad outlines of the agricultural university mandate such as the university's relationship with the ministry of…

This resource gathers together explorations of women's art from Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the United States as a stimulus for interdisciplinary discussion and investigation. Part 1, "Art, Ecology, and Spirituality", focuses on traditional artists from Borneo, India, and Mexico, whose symbolic images are linked to goddesses…

This discussion of the major factors that appear to determine the pace of development of computer uses in education in developing nations focuses on Brunei, a tiny, oil-rich sultanate in South East Aia with a population of approximately a quarter of a million. Questions are often raised as to whether computers are required merely to follow the…

This paper presents a general rationale for investing in early childhood development (ECD) in Latin America that derives from scientific evidence about the importance of the early years in the formation of intelligence, personality, and social behavior. This rationale argues that the economic returns of ECD programs can be quite high (through…

Using both a retrospective and a prospective view, this book examines the links joining research, policy, and change in education in Latin America. It inquires about the relationships among the economy, politics, and the state. It reviews the praxis of education in Latin American countries and in the context of the development trends of the 1980s.…

These keynote remarks review some of the origins of Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act. This legislation, whose goal is to conquer famine and malnutrition worldwide, was signed into law by President Ford in 1975. Senator Hubert Humphrey's address at the 1977 Famine Prevention Symposium in Washington, DC, is recounted with emphasis on his…

Drama and non-formal education (NFE), with their links to real life, can be effective partners in achieving developmental goals. The freedom in NFE from some of the structural features of formal schooling presents a dynamic opportunity for the arts, with their affective characteristics, to help in achieving affective goals of education and…

Papers on Third World academic, research, and medical libraries and their role in scientific and technical information transfer, which were presented at the 1983 UNESCO/IFLA (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization/International Federation of Library Associations) seminar, include: (1) "Development of Effective…

This report summarizes the background and purpose of the Friedrichsdorf, West Germany UNISIST meeting and describes the principal issues which emerged from the papers presented and the accompanying discussion. Topics of discussion reported include: (1) the availability of information resources at the national level, particularly concerns of…