While the overall change in Cuban education came about because of the revolution, expansion took place in several stages, each largely a function of the economic development policy being followed at the time. In the period up to 1964 when Cuba thought it could industrialize under the Soviet model it concentrated on developing basic education for…

American Samoa provides our country's educators with the opportunity of observing an educational system that effectively employs many of the principles of comprehensive reassessment and change that are only being talked about in the United States. Of particular interest to the group of educators whose visit is described in this article were the…

Processes and plans for redefinition of the goals of African educational systems are noted in this historical summary of educational development. Rationale for revision of the Addis Ababa plan by committees representing Unesco and the Organization of African Unity is presented. (SM)

A detailed study of changes that have taken place in Chinese education since the Communists came to power there. (Author)

Critique of an earlier issue "Education as Transformation: Identity, Change, and Development" (See EJ 245 279-284), which was devoted to the role of education in Third World development. Argues that new cultural identities arise from a transformation of nature, not merely of appearance. (JOW)

Responses from seven authors of the special issue on "Education as Transformation: Identity, Change, and Development," (see EJ 245 279-284) to the two critiques presented in this issue. (JOW)

Distance teaching has been used to improve teacher education in Peru as part of the educational reform which began in 1970. Correspondence courses, radio, and television have been utilized. (BD)

An integrated system of higher education geared to the national development plan can bring about fundamental shifts in national consciousness that will result in a more harmonious relationship between the principal resource of all development activities--people--and the goals toward which the national plans are aimed. (Author/IRT)

Argues that the present crisis of basic education for young people in Africa reveals problems that are more fundamental than enrollments, inputs, and costs. Maintains that non-conventional approaches to learning, associated with non-formal and distance education, have important but distinct contributions to make to the reform of mainstream…

Against a backdrop of the importance of project evaluation in Africa, and the centrality of the project logical framework (logframes) to project evaluation, this paper reflects on experiences arising from evaluations of three educational development projects in East and Southern Africa. Each of these projects had a strong teacher development…

It is 40 years since Coombs (1967) first drew attention to the World Education Crisis, and specifically problems in the educational systems of countries in the developing world. Today, many of these problems remain, and are most visible in the educational systems of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of children remain out of school…