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Mukhopadhyay, Marmar – 1997
The National Literacy Mission Authority has begun pilot testing an innovative open distance education program for newly literate individuals in 20 districts of India. Using open and distance education where literacy is at its infancy is feasible because newly literate persons can manage to read printed material and have the motivation to read and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
1992
The Sudbury Valley School was founded in 1968 by a group of Massachusetts parents who felt that a child is a person, worthy of full respect as a human being. It was intended that a nurturing environment be created in which the children themselves chose what they wished to do and scheduled their time. Democracy was a cornerstone of the school's…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Greenberg, Daniel; Sadofsky, Mimsy – 1992
The Sudbury Valley School is a nontraditional private school founded in 1968 as a place where each student could be trusted fully to make every decision about how to grow into an adult. This book describes a study conducted in 1991 to determine what became of Sudbury students after they left. Questionnaires and interviews were used to gather data…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Schools
Martin, Margaret; Burrows, Charlotte – American Education, 1973
Article focuses on a school where children never failwhere they want to learn, and where they learn how to learn. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Rafael, Berta; And Others – Rehabilitation Literature, 1979
The United Cerebral Palsy Open Education Project was developed to meet the individual educational goals of multiply handicapped children (ages six months to 13 years). (PHR)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Cerebral Palsy, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Potter, John – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1997
Two interviews with Akira, a 7-year-old student, describe life at a Japanese residential free school. Modeled after the Summerhill School, the main components are voluntary lessons, self-government through weekly schoolwide meetings and smaller dormitory meetings, and extensive experiential learning through project work. Akira likes Kinokuni…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Experiential Learning
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Ellis, Paul; And Others – Educational and Training Technology International, 1989
Six articles and case studies examine continuing education in the United Kingdom. Highlights include vocational education and training; the Professional, Industrial and Commercial Updating Programme (PICKUP); retraining in software engineering; Higher Introductory Technology and Engineering Conversion Course (HITECC); training needs in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Case Studies, Competency Based Education
Matteson, Aleta – Equity and Choice, 1992
New educational technology supports a new vision of learning and teaching at Silver Ridge Elementary School in Silverdale (Washington), part of the Strategy 2020 design of the Central Kitsap School District. Technological and pedagogical innovation features extensive use of computers, flexible building arrangements, and special education in…
Descriptors: Building Innovation, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Hedberg, John G.; Harper, Barry – Educational Media International, 1993
Describes five pilot projects in Australia which apply telecommunications to the concepts of distance education and open learning strategies for teachers at the preservice and posttraining level. Future projects using telecommunications for inservice teacher training based on results of the pilot projects are described. (EAM)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Networks, Costs, Distance Education
Long, Kathleen M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Describes an open-format laboratory school housed on the campus of Manakato University in Minnesota that was the antithesis of dominant schooling patterns in 1968. Wilson Campus School practiced early forms of authentic assessment, participative decision making, cooperative learning, nongraded student grouping, multicultural education, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cooperative Learning, Democratic Values, Educational History
Burke, David; And Others – Hands On, 1992
A high school teacher and four students restructured the curriculum for a shop math class based on Foxfire practices. The students, former underachievers, gained support and raised monies for building a gyroplane by writing grants, meeting with school administrators, and taking part in community speaking engagements. (LP)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, General Mathematics
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Fischman, Gustavo – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1998
Explores the challenges and possibilities of popular education by examining the educational field after the application of structural adjustment programs in Latin America. Presents a critique of Gramsci's model of the organic intellectual as understood by many within popular education. Offers the specific example of a popular-education workshop in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights, Decentralization, Educational Development
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Takwale, Ram – Indian Journal of Open Learning, 1998
Discusses the evolution of the educational system in India, developments in new communication technologies, and plans by the open and distance education system to develop educational networks. Policies and programs adopted by the Distance Education Council are outlined. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education, Educational Change
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Khan, Abdul W.; McWilliams, Patricia – Indian Journal of Open Learning, 1998
Examines why technology and media are critical to distance education, what attributes may contribute to distance education, and factors that must be taken into account when adopting and integrating media into distance education, including changing roles and responsibilities. Looks at barriers to expanded use of media in distance education and the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Media
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Taylor, James C. – Indian Journal of Open Learning, 1998
Presents four models of distance education and associated delivery technologies (i.e., correspondence, multi-media, telelearning, and flexible learning), and briefly discusses instructional design technology. A global faculty-development program at the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) for teaching at a distance is described; the…
Descriptors: Certification, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Faculty Development
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