Presents issues and debates raised at the Eighth International Conference on Economics Education. Emphasizes the colonial legacy of education systems in developing nations. Expresses a fear among developing nations that Europe will develop an increasingly protectionist stance after 1992. Questions the concept of the developing nations as a group…

Discussion of language planning focuses on a study that addressed the effects of the introduction of Portuguese as the official language by the newly independent government of Mozambique on a target audience that spoke eight various other languages. Relationships between national language policies and popular language usage are discussed. (37…

Discusses the higher education crisis in developing countries in terms of the ways in which problems are analyzed and decisions are made. Focuses on discrepancies between objectives and achievements. Highlights the importance of risk analysis in strategic planning, advocating an impact assessment approach. (DMM)

This article describes the forms of corporal punishment practiced at Eton School (Great Britain) in the 1950s and argues that ritual beating must be seen as physical and sexual child abuse. The article notes that such institutionalized child abuse may continue in Third World nations that have borrowed from European practices. (DB)

This article summarizes results from action-oriented studies carried out at the Mental Heath Centre in Peshawar, Pakistan, dealing with such topics as attitudes toward disability, casual integration, and trends in polio paralysis. The article also considers problems associated with the dissemination of special education and rehabilitation research…

Structured interviews with 40 teachers of deaf primary school pupils in Nigeria and 40 other teachers found the teachers identified the greatest challenge in society's weak acceptance of the legitimacy of deaf education and the greatest prospect was the high achievement motivation of deaf pupils. (Author/DB)

Sustainable development means educating the powerless to become empowered. The changed role of development workers requires participatory training that gives them the experience of nonhierarchical collective learning and decision making. (SK)

The 1988 World Bank report on education in sub-Saharan Africa overstates the regional "crisis" in educational quality and recommends unrealistic strategies, ignoring the fact that basic human needs such as education are unmet because political elites corruptly privatize much of the wealth generated by their nations' economies. (SV)

Compares the U.S. objective of protecting the knowledge required to develop certain products to environmental protection in the United States-Mexico Free Trade Act negotiations. Argues that environmental regulation should be included in the negotiations with force equal to that for intellectual rights protection. (55 references) (MDH)

The four language classroom activities described include work with verbal moods (subjunctive, conditional) by eliciting student suggestions for ways to help third-world countries; ways to practice social meeting/greeting/introduction situations; development of phonetic understanding and vocabulary through letter and sound changes; use of…

Appraises Zambia's higher education finance policies since gaining independence from Britain, focusing on the political, social, and economic conditions influencing policy decisions and the moral and ethical implications of these decisions. Shows that Zambia's "free education" policy promotes inequity and inefficiency. Advocates policy…

Discusses the concept of copyright and how it is embodied in the law, including an overview of international copyright. Applications in developing countries are discussed, and pros and cons are considered in terms of economics, competition among publishers, and dissemination of information. (Contains nine references.) (EAM)

Describes the development of the library profession in Ethiopia in the context of similar development in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Africa. Undergraduate courses, training for school librarians, the establishment of the Department of Library Science, the first master's level program and the Ethiopian Library Association are…

This essay proposes that, in the current changing world, the traditional liberal arts model of higher education, advocating liberal learning for human freedom, does not go far enough to liberate specific groups from concrete mechanisms of deprivation and oppression. A critique, rebuttal, and second response are also presented. (MSE)

The concept of sustainable agriculture from the perspective of development in Kenya is discussed. The steps in an Environmental Impact Assessment which takes into account the physical, cultural, social, and ecological aspects of the problem are presented. (CW)