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Miron, Gary, Ed.; Sorensen, Karen, Ed. – 1991
This document results from a seminar held to initiate a dialogue on the ways and means of strengthening research capacity in developing countries. The seminar participants hoped to take stock of the economic and social changes that nations around the world have witnessed in this decade. These changes have engendered shifts in educational research…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textNational Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1981
Practical guidelines are provided for the development of training programs for educational research workers. There are five chapters. Background, objectives, and organization of the seminar are discussed in the first chapter. The second chapter examines common directions, trends, and problems in the educational research of the Asian and Pacific…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Gerver, Elisabeth, Ed. – 1997
This document contains 10 papers from the research assessment exercise (RAE) that four organizations concerned with continuing education in the United Kingdom conducted to evaluate the quality and impact of research on continuing education in 1996. (The organizations were as follows: Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Evans, Terry, Ed.; Juler, Philip, Ed. – 1992
Nineteen papers concerning various aspects of distance education and distance education research are presented in this document. The papers are: (1) "Introduction, Celebrating Difference in Research in Distance Education" (Terry Evans); (2) "Discourse or Discord? A Dilemma of Distance Education" (Philip Juler); (3)…
Descriptors: Adult Development, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conference Papers
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Structures, Content, Methods and Techniques of Education. – 1981
An international colloquium, held in Bucharest, Romania, in November, 1980, brought together educational researchers and persons responsible for educational policies and programs. They examined ways and means of making research more relevant to socioeconomic development and of increasing the internal effectiveness of education. Topics of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Developing Nations, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1983
Educational research in Asia and the Pacific is examined from the perspective of reform in instructional content and method. Information based on speeches and discussion at a regional workshop held in Japan in 1982 is presented in four chapters. Chapter 1 explains workshop objectives, introduces participants, and presents a general overview of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Research
Archibald, Jo-ann, Ed.; And Others – 1988
This proceedings addresses issues within the area of Indian education. The papers are categorized into four sections. The section "Theoretical Contributions" includes papers that: (1) advocate a commitment to the future of creative ethnicity and a regard for the past of tribalism; (2) offer a framework as a means of better understanding…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1982
The papers in this collection were presented at an international symposium on improving the management of urban research, particularly through city-university collaboration. An introductory framework paper summarizes the range of research services available to local government, the types of urban research activity, and the problems of urban…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, City Government, Cooperative Programs
Rioux, Marcia H., Ed.; Bach, Michael, Ed. – 1994
This book is the product of a forum titled New Research Directions and Paradigms, held at the Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency in Australia in August 1992. The book presents 13 chapters, all written within a critical paradigm for disability research which critiques the reification of…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Civil Rights, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Shapira, R., Ed.; And Others – 1981
Issues and developments concerning the education of Israeli youth in residential schools are summarized in this report of a seminar which brought together educators from the United States and Israel. The first part of the report describes the residential school and gives its history as both part of a long tradition, and as it particularly evolved…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet, which was produced as a follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, presents examples of key areas where research is currently being conducted by various public and nongovernmental agencies and recommends ways to enhance communication among researchers. The first 75% of the booklet reviews recent research on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
