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Download full textPhillips, H. M. – 1975
This paper analyzes what is meant by basic education. The author presents six principal usages of the term that are based on the kinds of education offered and their purposes rather than on whether they take place in or out of school. Examples of the six usages are given. Variations in terminology are generally more than purely semantic or…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Developing Nations, Educational Methods
Friend, Jamesine, Ed.; And Others – 1980
This document reports on the Radio Mathematics Project (RMP) over a five-year period. In 1973, the United States Agency for International Development (AID) asked the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences (IMSSS) at Stanford University to develop an instructional program with radio as the medium of delivery. IMSSS was to devise…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Methods, Educational Radio
Campos, Miguel A.; Williams, David R. – 1970
The Escuelas "Sabatinas" (Saturday Schools) program in Costa Rica will be for adults 18 and over who wish to obtain a primary school diploma on the basis of maturity, and who have enough general knowledge, intelligence, and maturity to undertake independent study supplemented by formal instruction. The course will run two years, 36 weeks…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Census Figures, Costs, Developing Nations
Luckey, George W. A. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This bulletin is divided into two parts: (1) South America; and (2) Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. The countries included under the term "Latin America" are so extensive and important, and the effects of the World War, direct and indirect, on all systems of education have been so disturbing, that one is at a loss to know how best to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, War, Public Education
