The paper sets out to show that teaching is among the five undeniably oldest and historically character-shaping professions in the world, the others being engineering-architecture, medicine, law, and accounting and each of these professions has a unique story in connection with its genesis and its influence on social organisation. The paper…

This publication is the outcome of the international conference organized by UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with the Centre for Validation of Prior Learning at Inholland University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, and in partnership with the French National Commission for UNESCO that was held in Hamburg in…

To reach rural populations, the University of Namibia hires part-time faculty with varying qualifications on one-year contracts to conduct distance education. A study of these teachers' classroom behavior and attention to course content, based on observations made by their full-time faculty supervisors, suggests that they are substantially lacking…