This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in open and distance non-formal education in developing countries for over more than 20 years. It includes many instructive and inspiring examples of how international agencies such as UNESCO, FAO, WHO, UNICEF, USAID and the Commonwealth of Learning and national providers are using…

Explains the role of one type of adult education--Accelerated Training for Workers--in combating underdevelopment in Mozambique. Presents a response to the needs of a nation that is changing rapidly after centuries of neglect and foreign domination. (JOW)

An educational program designed to give practical information and skills to rural village women in Upper Volta is described. (DE)

Chief concern of the Women's Programme of Africa has been the participation of women as human resources in the process of development. Limited educational/training opportunities have existed for women; necessary strategies identified were vocational education training programs evaluation, literacy programs review, study of girl school-leavers, and…

INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS ORGANIZED BY UNESCO, PARTICULARLY THE TEHERAN CONGRESS, HAVE PUBLICIZED THE LINK BETWEEN LITERACY WORK AND ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE NEED FOR THE REVISION OF PRIORITIES. ACTION IS NOW NEEDED. UNESCO'S EFFORT TO ERADICATE ILLITERACY ASSUMES THREE FORMS--(1) CONDUCTING PILOT EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY, A TENTATIVE LISTING OF MATERIALS ON AFRICAN ADULT EDUCATION PREPARED WITHOUT FULL BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAIL IS LIMITED TO SOURCES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH. THE ENGLISH SOURCES DO NOT INCLUDE MANY FROM AMERICA. IT IS AN EXTENSION AND REVISION OF THE PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY DRAWN UP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN IN 1965. THE FIRST SECTION…

Non-Formal Education (NFE) is traditionally defined as any organizational activity outside the established formal education system. In India two major types of NFE exist. The first type is literacy courses, available for students of any age; these are taught in the evenings. The second type is vocational training, which often takes place during…

As part of an annotated bibliography on human resource development through education and training, this section contains references to literature on adult and fundamental education, literacy education, community development, cooperative education, extension work, rural education, supervisory and management education, and vocational and industrial…

This document discusses the need to increase the amount of U.S. international funding that goes to basic education. Because U.S. foreign aid programs are reviewed prior to a new fiscal year, this paper suggests that people can make a difference by working to raise the profile of basic education and by encouraging U.S. policymakers to increase…

Like that of other African nations, the educational system of Togo was created during the country's colonial period, and reflected the needs of the colonizers, not those of the native peoples. Education was elitist and served to further the government bureaucracy. After Togo became independent in 1960, it began to revise its inherited French…

A program to train literacy providers to help empower women was developed with funding from the United Nations Development Program. The training program is based on a manual titled "Educate to Empower." The manual, which is designed to train material developers to prepare gender-sensitive learning kits on various topics related to…

Part I of this report describes projects in progress in nine countries: Bangladesh (Mass Education through Small Local Organizations), China (Multi-purpose Adult Education Schools and Resource Centres), Ethiopia (Literacy and Post-Literacy Programme), Jamaica (Jamaican Movement for the Advancement of Literacy), Nepal (Training for Vocational…

The aim of the CIRF abstracts is to convey information about vocational training ideas, programs, experience, and experiments described in periodicals, books, and other publications and relating to operative personnel, supervisors, and technical and training staff in all sectors of economic activity. Information is also given on major trends in…

The major portion of this publication consists of 13 papers presented at the seminar on out-of-school education. The papers include both general treatments of the subject and analyses of particular case studies. The papers are organized into four broad topical groups--possible approaches to the planning of out-of-school education, the Esfahan…

The goal of building bridges between the Pacific Basin and the United States can be accomplished by focusing on economic considerations. Trade agreements, business and university collaborations, and the mobility of populations between the Pacific Basin and the United States serve as examples of common experiences and cooperation. As education in…