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Castro, Fidel – This Magazine, 1976
Excerpts of this speech highlights that the schools in the countryside provide a real opportunity for educating individuals by combining education and work; schools being based on concept that education and the training of an individual are closely related to productive work. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
Greenblatt, Sydney L. – Humanist, 1979
Describes Chinese system of fortune telling and points out diagnostic and therapeutic functions of the Chinese fortune teller in a social setting of mixed systems of values. Journal availability: see SO 507 190. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Traits, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGaljart, Benno F. – Rural Sociology, 1975
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cultural Context, Developing Nations, Dropouts
Peer reviewedQuintero-Alfaro, Angel G. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1972
Author bases this discussion on personal experience of the last 25 years with educational programs and educational changes in Puerto Rico but which may have wider relevance. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
White, Robert A. – 1980
This paper discusses the important link between social stucture and communications systems and explores some of the practical policy implications resulting from this relationship. First, the concept of social structure as the basis of a pattern of communication is clarified. Then, one paradigm of communication structure typical of many Third World…
Descriptors: Communications, Cultural Context, Developing Nations, Information Dissemination
Download full textStoddard, Theodore L.; And Others – 1971
This volume, one of a series of handbooks on foreign culture, is intended as a reference tool for military and other personnel requiring an objective, comprehensive, and balanced description of the Indian Ocean Territories, namely, the two republics of Meldives and Mauritius, and the two European dependencies of Seychelles and Reunion. An…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cultural Context, Demography, Developing Nations
Kaplan, Irving; And Others – 1971
The dominant social, political, and economic aspects of Ghanaian society are described in this handbook. Changes and developments in Ghana in the past 10 years, highlighted by the 1966 overthrough and widespread repudiation of Kwame Nkrumah and his policies and practices, have created a need for this revision of the 1962 edition. The purpose of…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Cultural Context
Henderson, John W.; And Others – 1971
This volume, one of a series of handbooks on foreign culture, is intended as a reference tool for military and other personnel requiring an objective, comprehensive, and balanced description of Burma's modern society. An analytical appraisal of social, economic, and political aspects is provided with emphasis on the interaction of these societal…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Burmese Culture, Communism
Henderson, John W.; And Others – 1971
Changing conditions and events in Thailand required that a third edition of this area handbook incorporating current data be published. It is a compilation of basic facts written with military and other personnel in mind. An analytical appraisal of social, economic, and political aspects is provided with emphasis on the interaction of these…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Communism, Cultural Context
Stambler, Moses – 1983
Numerous factors influencing health status and health care in Mexico are reviewed in this paper. Part I covers socioeconomic influences including agricultural and land tenure patterns, oil production, population growth rate, and the extent of poverty. Part II discusses the political environment, emphasizing the effects of politics on strategies…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems
