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Jumani, Nabi Bux – Online Submission, 2009
It was found that the majority of the listeners possessed radio sets and was getting benefit from the educational programmes of radio. The programmes were informative and motivating. The strategies of radio for rural education were appreciable because these infused mobility, widened horizon of rural people and focused attention on the goals and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Benjamin, Jane – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this research is to compare the rural education practices of China, Taiwan, Canada and the United States. International comparisons of mathematics achievement find that students in Asian countries outperform those from the USA. Excluded from these studies, however, are students from rural areas in China. This study compares the math…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
Xu, Hui – Online Submission, 2005
The present condition of rural education in the western region of China is not optimistic. Existing problems include lacking education investment, poor school-running conditions, simplified running pattern and laggard concept of education. The countermeasures are: firstly, governments at all level especially the center one should increase input to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Rural Areas, Compulsory Education
Sharma, Shilpa – Online Submission, 2002
The present study, "Mapping Rural Adolescent Girl's Participation in Residential Non- Formal Education Program--A Study in Lunkaransar Block, Rajasthan", was an attempt to understand the dimensions of rural adolescent girls' participation in the "Balika Shivir" Program. It is a six month residential non-formal education program…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups
Palmer, Bill – Online Submission, 1996
I have been responsible for the teaching of a secondary teacher education unit called Educational Issues (EDN 482) for the past seven years, in the Faculty of Education in a small, regional Australian University. A brief look at the map will show how geographically isolated form the main centres of population in Australia, Northern Territory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication
Boylan, Colin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
The papers contained in this document represent the keynote addresses, refereed and non-refereed conference papers from the 21st National Conference of the Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA). The theme for this national annual conference was: Our Stories: Innovation and Excellence in Rural Education. Keynote…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Distance Education