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Strategic Analysis of Sustainable Socioeconomic Situation of Rural Areas in the Samara Region of the Russian Federation
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Belyaeva, Galina I.; Ermoshkina, Ekaterina N.; Kosyakova, Inessa V.; Pankratova, Larisa E.; Zotova, Anna S. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
On the one hand, the relevance of this problem is primarily determined by a growing gap of rural territorial entities in socioeconomic development, and on the other hand, due to their significance in such prominent aspects for the country as food security, maintaining the existing land, industrial, ecological, demographic and human potential. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Socioeconomic Background, Rural Areas
Encounters and Places: Project Negotiations in Galessa, Ethiopia
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Habermann, Birgit; Felt, Ulrike; Vogl, Christian R.; Bekele, Kassahun; Mekonnen, Kindu – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2012
Purpose: Reflections on negotiation processes between farmers and scientists in research projects provide insights into issues of participation, power and equity. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how actors chose places to meet, negotiate and represent technologies. Design/methodology/approach: The research involved semi-structured…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Research Projects, Social Studies, Technology Transfer
Schooling and Factors Affecting Decisions on Schooling by Household Members in the Rural Areas of Turkey
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Olgun, Akin; Gumus, Sevtap Guler; Adanacioglu, Hakan – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Despite the fact that rural education has always been one of the most important means of rural development, it has been ignored in many developing countries, with the result that rural development has not achieved great success. The problems of education in rural areas are not only related to the amount the country spends on education or to the…
Descriptors: Job Training, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Economic Factors
Off-Farm Labour Decision of Canadian Farm Operators: Urbanization Effects and Rural Labour Market Linkages
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Alasia, Alessandro; Weersink, Alfons; Bollman, Ray D.; Cranfield, John – Journal of Rural Studies, 2009
Understanding the factors affecting off-farm labour decisions of census-farm operators has significant implications for rural development and farm income support policy. We examine the off-farm labour decisions of Canadian farm operators using micro-level data from the 2001 Census of Agriculture combined with community level data from the 2001…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Rural Farm Residents, Agricultural Occupations, Income
The Impact of Primary School Administration of Students' Parents in Rural Brazil.
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Fonseca, Claudia – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1982
The rural primary school in Brazil could make important contributions to rural development through its potential to involve adults (parents) in democratic group decisions. The system as it now stands, however, is rigidly hierarchical and allows no space for participation of low income groups in upper-echelon decision making. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decision Making, Democracy, Developing Nations
Managing Education for Rural Development. Report of the Advanced-Level Workshop on Education for Rural Development (New Delhi, March 17-26, 1977).
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1977
Goals of a workshop bringing together 31 education and rural development specialists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, and India were to explore problems, synthesize experiences, and consider how to improve their programs of education for rural development. After giving individual country reports, participants…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Change Agents
Collaboration for Materials Development. A Workshop in Materials Development for Nonformal Education in Indonesia. Training Notes Series, No. 2.
Etling, Arlen – 1977
The booklet presents goals and activities to help practitioners of nonformal education design workshops for developing nations. Major objectives are to help nonformal educational practitioners become more sensitive to the needs of learners and to develop techniques for dealing cooperatively with people in other cultures. The document is presented…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Change Agents, Comparative Education