The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) supports close to 70 developing countries to ensure that every child receives a quality education. The featured stories in this report show the progress that developing country partners are making in getting more children, especially girls, in school and learning. The results are not only evidence of…

Purpose: New approaches to extension service delivery are needed that stimulate increased agricultural production, contribute to collective action and which also foster the emergence of agricultural innovation systems. Research in Peru and Mexico explores some of these new approaches. Design/methodology/approach: In both countries, a qualitative…

The survey by the UNESCO secretariat on the equality of access of girls and women to education in the context of rural development forms the basis of this report. A questionnaire (Annex I) was sent to all Member States and associate members of UNESCO. Replies from fifty-six countries were considered, with 45 detailed replies furnishing the main…

Education is a necessary investment in the modern state since it is the key to overall national development. Its two parts consist of formal and out-of-school education. The first includes the regular classroom--primary, secondary, technical, and university education. The second consists of nonformal education and training. Economic development is…

Examines the relationship between education and development in developing nations. Advocates the fostering of a technical humanism--the development of knowledge in all its forms as a basis for action. In this system, technical education is as highly valued as general education. The system, and its applications to rural education is discussed. (CP)

Presented in this work are case studies drawn from developing countries, principally Madagascar and Niger. They are examples of radical alternatives designed to serve a population not served by conventional schools and to convey instruction quite different from what is usually given in schools. In brief, the programs are more production-oriented…

This book contains a series of essays based on public lectures delivered by six agricultural economists during the 1986-1987 academic year at Western Michigan University. Some of the main issues and problems addressed in the essays are the role of technical change in agricultural development, the value of learning from historical and comparative…

In 1977, the government of the Sudan launched the Integrated Rural Development Project with the aim of ruralizing and vocationalizing primary school education. Integrated Rural Education Centres (IRECs) were the first attempt by the government to introduce vocational subjects as part of general education at the primary school level. Unfortunately,…

The bulletin is one in the series "Rural Africana" published 3 times yearly by the African Studies Center, Michigan State University. "Rural Africana" is devoted to current research in the social sciences, exploring the problems of social and economic development in rural Africa south of the Sahara. The present issue is a…

African countries need to develop new approaches to socio-economic development and education which are appropriate to the individual needs of each country. The thrust of development programs should be towards small-scale agriculture and industry, self-help villages, and community-based public health programs in rural areas. (AM)

As part of an annotated bibliography on human resource development through education and training, this section contains references to literature on adult and fundamental education, literacy education, community development, cooperative education, extension work, rural education, supervisory and management education, and vocational and industrial…

This guide provides information on 42 directories that list over 20,000 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Listings cover NGOs in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean Region, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,…

Formal education has traditionally played the conservative role of transmitting values, culture, skills, and knowledge from one generation to the next. Its role has become dysfunctional in societies such as those in Asia and the Pacific that are characterized by rapid change. In societies such as these, the need now is for education for…

Concerned with the application of science and technology to agriculture, this book is intended to be used as a reference for rural education groups and as a guide for teachers in an attempt to formulate a new approach to teaching rural economics by integrating it into the overall analysis of social and economic development. The book is divided…

This report documents the development of educational television (ETV) and a satellite communication system designed to serve the educational and communication needs of Iran. An overview description of an ETV system for Iran and assessment of its importance for Iran's development is followed by estimates of the manpower needs of the country in…