A theoretical analysis of how nonformal education by radio represents a less expensive/more effective strategy for transmitting skills, knowledge, and values, increasingly likely to be adopted and directed toward adults in rural areas of developing countries. Illustrated with material from fieldwork in Huayacocotla, a village in Veracruz, Mexico.…

Educational participation among rural Nepalese school-age children was significantly related to individual student characteristics (gender, age, contribution to household activities and earnings, distance from school, father's educational attainment); household characteristics (educational attitudes, socioeconomic status); teacher characteristics;…

Interviews and survey questionnaires were used to collect--from 302 randomly selected farm households in the Kahvre Palanchowk District in eastern Nepal--information regarding how families make decisions about schooling for children. The findings suggest that sociocultural and economic factors cause parents to discriminate among children according…