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Strategic Planning for Higher Education in Developing Countries: Challenges and Lessons
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Hayward, Fred M. – Planning for Higher Education, 2008
The study presented in this article focuses on strategic planning in developing countries, drawing on the author's experiences in a dozen developing countries in Asia and Africa and focus groups in three of those countries: Afghanistan, Madagascar, and South Africa. It looks at the special challenges faced by planners in developing countries and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
The Imperial Curriculum: Racial Images and Education in the British Colonial Experience.
Mangan, J. A., Ed. – 1993
This book presents a comparative analysis of racial attitudes within formal schooling of both Britain and its former dominions and colonies. It provides essays that examine racism, education, and imperialism, and focuses on the function of education, curriculum, and textbooks in shaping imperial images of dominance and deference. The following…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Education and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Challenge of Implementation. Innocenti Occasional Papers, Child Rights Series, Number 4.
Dall, Frank – 1993
This paper examines ways to educate the 160 million children denied access to primary schools and the 960 million adults throughout the world still illiterate in 1990. It focuses on three especially marginalized groups: (1) girls and women, who make up the majority of unschooled and illiterate children and adults; (2) the children of ethnic…
Descriptors: Bias, Childrens Rights, Developing Nations, Educational Change