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Direct linkBarabasch, Antje; Bohlinger, Sandra; Wolf, Stefan – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
The article contributes to the understanding of educational policy transfer with a particular focus on VET and labour-market related training. A review of VET policy transfer literature is followed by a description of travelling VET reforms in adult and vocational education and training around the globe. Historical foundations of VET policy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Technology Transfer
Peer reviewedde Vries, Peter – Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, 1988
Describes how computer-assisted-instruction was introduced into an adult education center in Soweto, South Africa. Concludes that one should not assume that the Third World has the infrastructure (or electricity) to accommodate change. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations
Download full textMcAnany, Emile G.; Mayo, John K. – 1980
This booklet discusses, in the context of low-income countries, a series of planning issues bridging education and communication. The planning issues include the democratization of educational opportunity, the quality of instruction and learning, the impact of education through technology on rural areas, and the participation of people in their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Community Action, Cost Effectiveness
Louis, Karen Seashore; Jones, Lisa M. – 2001
Dissemination in career and technical education does not simply disperse information, new products, new practices and materials, and new ideas designed to stimulate local change but does so in ways that promote its use. Federal efforts to promote dissemination of research-based information in education are: (1) deeply indebted to the agricultural…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Delivery Systems
Watson, Moira; Nicholson, Lindsay; Sharplin, Elaine – 2001
Since the "Kangan Report" (1974), literacy and numeracy (L&N) issues have become an integral component of policy development in Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector. Debate in the literature is based on competing discourses: functional-economic and social practice. These discourses and globalization of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Cross Cultural Training, Developed Nations
Fitzsimons, Gail E. – 2002
This book, aimed at mathematics and vocational educators and researchers, analyzes the historical, sociological, and practical elements of mathematics within vocational education against the emerging impact of technology. Focus is on the current situation of mathematics within Australian vocational and technical education and how that might be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Cultural Images, Developed Nations
Williams, Roy – 2000
The Diffusion of Appropriate Educational Technology in Open and Distance Learning in Developing Countries project was designed to determine awareness and use of educational technologies and communications media in developing countries, to identify factors constraining wider use of educational technologies by developing nations, and to explore…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Appropriate Technology, Attitude Change
