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Savane, Marie-Angelique – Prospects, 1975
Cultural, economic, and health factors influencing population trends in Senegal are described. The advantages of family planning and sex education are enumerated. (DE)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations
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Davies, Lynn – Comparative Education, 1987
Researching women, educational administration, and the Third World is paradoxically not about focusing on women at all. To do so would be to underscore a counter-productive sex differences approach and to detract from consideration of why, and for whom, power has come to be exercised in certain ways in schools. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Administrators, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Administration
Hall, Budd; Stock, Arthur – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1985
Global conditions that form the context for adult education in 1985 are examined. Trends in third world and in industrialized nations are discussed. Reaching the educationally underprivileged is a concern. Those who already have a successful formal educational experience are the ones most likely to take advantage of adult education. (RM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Kempner, Ken, Ed.; Tierney, William G., Ed. – 1996
The nine papers in this anthology present cases studies showing how culture influences the social role of higher education in various nations. It examines how environments get defined and how they shape universities , and how knowledge and academic work interact in national contexts. This book focuses on how both developed and developing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Faculty, Comparative Education