Improvement in teacher education (including opportunities for inservice programs), legislation making basic schooling compulsory, restructuring of the elementary and secondary levels, increased opportunity for the access to higher education, life-long learning programs, and the establishment of appropriate regional commissions responsible for…

Reviews research on success factors in early childhood education and explains how this research can help develop a model of early childhood in developing regions such as the West Indies. Topics discussed include curriculum development, family involvement, objectives, community development, and child development. (DB)

Analyzes the state of the social sciences and social science teaching in developing nations, particularly Turkey. Topics discussed include social demands for research workers, social change, the relationship between knowledge and analysis, resistance to new teaching methods within traditional universities, and differences between historical and…

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Identifies problems and contradictions which are inherent in social science teaching in India, as they are in all developing nations. A major problem is a search for indigenous theoretical models to replace models developed by colonial and other industrial nations. Merits of an interdisciplinary approach are stressed. (DB)

A new concept of post-literacy involves the ability to participate in decision making. Four Latin American programs, linked to four educational needs (fundamental, productivity, social service, and community organization), illustrate the concept by using methods and techniques to give people a degree of autonomy and by respecting the cultures and…

There is an urgent need to restructure universities in Africa; current problems include the loss of autonomy, a decaying infrastructure, inadequate salaries, an internal job market void of opportunities, brain drain, intellectual isolation, diminished research, and fossilized curricula. There is an equal need for a stabilized funding source and…

The Philippine educational system views education as a human development resource conversion process that can maximize the realization of the national developmental goals. Students comprise the principal input of this manpower resource conversion process. The output is individuals who can find useful and productive employment. Two broad strategies…

The necessity for planning education for economic development is the topic of this paper, which focuses particularly on the relationship between the Caribbean region and South Florida. First, a general overview of the current state of education in the Caribbean is presented, and the relation of formal education to development is discussed. Next,…

With focus on the similarities rather than the differences among Latin American countries, the interrelationships of education and employment are analyzed to draw implications for educational policy and planning. Emphasis is on the need to take into account the socio-political and cultural constraints operating in the Latin American context as…

There is increasing evidence that what we call civic education embraces only a part of the influences operating on a people, and may well be among the less important. There are a number of practical obstacles to the success of civic education in political socialization. The multifunctionality that allows schools to have so many favorable effects,…

A study was made to determine how many university level adult educators are likely to be needed by the organizations involved in adult education in Tanzania, and to determine the type of training desired by these organizations. Heads of 38 of the organizations were interviewed. It was found that the organizations are willing to release and sponsor…

Discussing the interrelationship of universal adult suffrage and adult education, this national seminar in India sought to identify the basic values, requirements, and problems of parliamentary democracy, together with consequences of adult suffrage and the potential contribution of adult education to improving the quality of the democratic…