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Agu, Agu Godswill; Kalu, Okwuagwu Okuu; Esi-Ubani, Chidadi Obinna; Agu, Paul Chinedu – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to integrate and extend two models of entrepreneurial intention to investigate the drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial intention among intermediate undergraduate university students in Nigeria. Specifically, this paper aims to introduce education for sustainable entrepreneurship into the integrated model,…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Intention, Entrepreneurship, Developing Nations
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Tierney, Robert J. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2018
Drawing upon tenets of critical theory, cultural capital, global epistemologies, decolonization, Indigenous ways of knowing, mobility and translanguaging, ethics, and global citizenship, this article proposes a model of cross-cultural meaning making and worldly reading as a foundation for global epistemological eclecticism in our research and…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Cultural Capital, Epistemology, Ethics
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Moradi, Fatemeh; Amiripour, Parvaneh – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
In this study, an attempt was made to predict the students' mathematical academic underachievement at the Islamic Azad University-Yadegare-Imam branch and the appropriate strategies in mathematical academic achievement to be applied using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. Survey research methods were used to select 91 students from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prediction, Mathematics Achievement, Low Achievement
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Shohel, M. Mahruf C.; Howes, Andrew J. – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2011
The social purposes of education are long term and oriented towards the construction and maintenance of a sustainable future. This article focuses on developing-country contexts with relatively low formal school enrolment rates, where dropout and failure rates are alarming, and where many children leave school semi-literate, soon to relapse into…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Illiteracy, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
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Kituyi, Geoffrey; Tusubira, Irene – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2013
The aim of this research was to design a framework for integrating e-learning in Higher Education Institutions in developing countries. Data were collected from 266 university students and staff of five universities in Uganda using a questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The requirements for e-learning integration were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Developing Nations, Electronic Learning, Technology Integration
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Richardson, Jayson; Finholt-Daniel, Matt; Sales, Greg; Flora, Kevin – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2012
This article focuses on exploring the outcomes of an e-learning initiative in Egypt. Researchers conducted training with 17 Egyptian educators on how to build, maintain, and teach using Moodle, an online content management system. The researchers evaluated the outputs of the training using the Technology Adoption Model (TAM) in an effort to assess…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Management Systems, Technology Integration
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Dilworth, Richardson – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
This article compares American and Albanian college students' urban political experiences in order to understand the relevance of American models of urban politics to developing nations. Urban growth in Albania has created needs for teaching students about urban governance. The evidence presented here suggests that Albanians' conceptions of urban…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Problems, Activism, Foreign Countries
Croft, Alison – Online Submission, 2010
This is an exploratory study suggesting ways of analysing challenges for developing countries in the move to greater inclusion of disabled children and young people in learning. The paper focuses on pedagogical challenges to realising more inclusive education. Pedagogy encompasses not only the practice of teaching and learning, but also the ideas…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Educational Research, Disabilities, Access to Education
Vella, Jane Kathryn – 1979
The effectiveness of visual aids in nonformal education depends on their relevance to the audience with which they are used, and this booklet provides a discussion of various factors for field workers to consider in designing and using simple visual aids in developing countries. Four specific types of visual aids are discussed in some…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Models
White, Robert A. – Media in Education and Development, 1983
Latin American radio schools have built an organization to provide a common educational policy and services of teacher training, research, and publication. Characteristics of radio school systems are outlined, and the development and formation of ALER (Latin American Association for Radiophonic Education) are discussed. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Radio, Instructional Innovation, International Organizations
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Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Chi, Min, Ed.; Feng, Mingyu, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2016) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the USA. The conference, held June 29-July 2, 2016, follows the eight previous editions (Madrid 2015, London 2014, Memphis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Vogeler, Ingolf – Journal of Geography, 1977
Explains how a dialectical approach to geography can help students analyze geographical issues and recognize the unspoken assumptions of any particular scientific method. The author describes his course in which conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives are used to examine the population problem in the Third World. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Critical Thinking, Developing Nations, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Chamberlin, John; Harder, John – 1982
International development education in the English classroom might consist of the critical analysis of print-media coverage of events in the Third World and the reading of fiction written by Third World authors. An integration of both activities requires a theoretical framework that would affirm the usefulness of the discipline's pursuits in…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Cultural Awareness, Developing Nations, English Instruction
Mulvihill, James L. – 1981
A project is described which can be used in geography classes on the college level to help students understand modernization in Latin America. The project is based on a demographic transition model--a model which demonstrates changes in birth and death rates as societies become increasingly industrialized and urbanized, and which also helps to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Demography, Developing Nations, Economic Development
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Richmond, Edmun B. – Foreign Language Annals, 1987
Proposes a model of target- and native-language proverb comparison which can be used to assist proverb analysis in the language curriculum, using examples from Mandinka, a West African language. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Classification, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness
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