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Takayo Ogisu – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2022
The World Conference on Education for All held in Jomtien, Thailand, in March 1990 was influential in the spread of student-centered pedagogies in low-income countries (Ginsburg, 2010). A document prepared in this conference considered the active and participatory teaching approaches as "particularly valuable in assuring learning acquisition…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Global Approach, Educational Change, Developing Nations
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Tedre, Matti; Bangu, Nicholas; Nyagava, Seth I. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2009
Tumaini University at Iringa, Tanzania, started a new B.Sc. program in IT in 2007. In the course of planning and implementation of the program, we found out that standard ACM/IEEE IT curricula are not adequate for an IT program in a poor, developing country. The standard curricula describe, in detail, the competences that IT specialists in…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Program Implementation
Cully, John H. – Online Submission, 2008
In the past decades there has been a significant transformation in global fiscal trends from a traditional resource based to a fast moving knowledge and technologically centered market. While this readjustment has triggered a significant number of advantages, issues and consequences upon industrialized countries, it has created even more concerns…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Course Content, Vocational Education, Teaching Methods
Cully, John H. – Online Submission, 2007
In many developing countries it is apparent that there are multifarious impediments associated with, and acting upon, educational development and the complexity of diverse socio-cultural landscapes. Indeed, numerous perspectives tend to be overlooked or possibly not even taken under consideration when it comes to the transmission of salient…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Higher Education, Global Approach, International Organizations
Rivera, William M., Comp.; Walker, Sharon M., Comp. – 1985
The 48 papers in this proceedings focus on aspects of non-formal adult education including international comparative adult education. The papers are: "Lifelong Learning in Perspective" (Knox); "Women in their Thirties: The In-Between Generation" (Caffarella, Freeman); "Development in Women: An Analysis of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Aging (Individuals)