As post-Taliban Afghanistan moves toward the establishment of a viable educational system, key stakeholders and donors are faced with the formidable challenge of how to most rapidly implement teacher training within an environment of diverse, changing, and largely unassessed training needs. The current article explores the dilemmas inherent in…

This paper first reviews the development of community education in Shanghai, one of China's eastern coastal cities. Then the development of community education in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, especially its management system and operational mechanisms, school operating systems and networks, curriculum systems, and team building are presented.…

The Studentersamfundets Fri Undervisning represents the efforts of young people, who donate their services for the advancement of educational opportunity and educational quality. Article describes one of the finest of these youth service programs. (Author/RK)

Programs that shake up and discomfort, start a chain reaction of inquiry and investigation, and set up a state of positive disequilibrium are more likely to achieve the goals of liberal education for adults than programs that satisfy, pacify, and provide simple answers and set solutions to problems. (Author/MF)

Defines log frames as tables outlining project objectives, activities, benchmarks, and potential problems. Describes how they were used to develop a curriculum for an agriculture degree program. (SK)

The radio program has been particularly effective in upgrading teachers, who comprise 90 per cent of the enrollees. (SP)

A Namibian project to train agricultural extension staff considered three approaches to curriculum development: content, product, and process. Use of participatory approaches brought new dimensions to the final product, but they cannot become an alternative to working with trainees on their own agenda. (SK)

Describes the process by which the Maiwala community in Papua New Guinea designed an elementary school curriculum that recognizes the need for Western-style education in order to communicate with the outside world, but focuses on vernacular education that makes the curriculum culturally relevant and meaningful to the community. (Contains 36…

Poverty can be both a consequence of, and contributory factor to, educational exclusion. This paper argues that poverty and exclusion are multidimensional. They require a multisectoral and multilevel approach in education if the most vulnerable sectors of society are to benefit from initiatives to turn exclusion into inclusion. This paper also…

A discussion of the changes made in the last decade within the universities of West Germany and their role in adult education. (MB)