Hypothesizes that the study of social sciences can help university students become more effective in social participation and can help them understand laws, perceive patterns of social development, and evaluate social action. Cuba is discussed as a case study of a nation in which social sciences emphasize participation in a communist socioeconomic…

Provides an overview of nonformal education. Discusses the characteristics of nonformal education as well as its misconceptions, limitations and prospects. (Editor/RK)

The author reviews selected research and literature related to women in Zambia. Topics include (1) socialization of girls in schools, (2) training needs of women in rural areas, (3) involvement of women in the informal sector in urban areas, and (4) status of women as shown through a study of government structure. (Author/CH)

Improving schooling efficiency and equity in industrializing countries is a sensible short-run strategy but does not address long-term implications of globalization and rapid social, economic, and technological changes. The Accelerated Schools project uses methods of gifted education to foster in all children the problem-solving and…

Teacher education research in India is predominantly a post-independence phenomenon, which gained momentum between 1950 and 1960. By the end of the 1960s, 85 doctoral themes had been approved by various Indian universities, out of which 40% of the researches were undertaken by Bombay University, the first university to institute a doctoral…

Since 1991, the Eritrean government has put into place an education system which had already been developed in the liberated areas during the years of struggle against Ethiopia. Little has been written on Eritrean education policy, and in particular the voices of educationalists responsible for its implementation have remained silent. In this…

This paper reviews the literature and presents a bibliography on the situation of people with mental retardation in Bangladesh. It begins with a review of the history of mental retardation in East Bengal, India (now Bangladesh) from the 1770s onwards but focuses on the development of disability information and formal services since the creation of…

Information is presented in recognition of the United Nations General Assembly proclamation of 1990 as International Literacy Year (ILY). It is shown that, in 1985, there were an estimated 889 million adult illiterates in the world (more than 25% of the adult population), and more than 100 million children of primary school age in developing…

The paper describes the present state of education in Nigeria with emphasis on the cultural, socio-economic, and political influences affecting special education. After a brief summary of education in Nigeria since independence (1960), the paper looks at problems identified in special education and at Section 8, that portion of the National Policy…

The vocationalization of education is different in economically less developed coutnries (LDCs) than in the economically more developed ones (MDCs). Although there may appear to be similarities, there are also important differences between them that largely arise from three contexts: (1) their social and economic structures and the resulting…

Twenty senior educators and nationals from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe, met to discuss new directions in education for development. The agenda was bound by three broad themes: new directions and concepts in education to meet development needs; appropriate high technology; and new collaboration between donor and…

The article describes the background of the Council, its major objectives, the membership association, the regional organization, priorities, program development, and second stage development of projects in progress. (MW)

Two tasks confront the developer of a method for comparison of national philosophies of adult education: to reduce distortion of information by creating general categories for grouping nations with analogous needs, and to delimit the parameter of the field where philosophy actually plays the generating role in developing educational policy.…

UNESCO's advisor to India's Ministry of Education and Social Welfare explains the limitations of formal education, outlines a parallel informal system, analyzes misconceptions regarding informal education, identifies its potential clientele and agents, and describes possible solutions for priority areas and groups. The advantages and limitations…