The attempt by various business groups in Lyon to establish or influence educational institutions as a means of extending and consolidating French influence outside the mother-country is examined. (Author/DE)

The author outlines the impact and implications of mass media for both formal and informal education. (DE)

Alternative school philosophy and structures are described. The implications for educational change are emphasized. (DE)

Independent study and research at the university level in China is examined. (JR)

Article focused on the obstacles of educating migrant children and discussed three themes relating to these problems, namely, reception in the host country, educational provision up to the school leaving age, and vocational training and general education of adolescents and adults. (Author/RK)

Author traced the history of the division between head and hand, vocationalism and intellectualism, and the difference in status recognition for both of them in order to show that inequality has persisted despite periodical liberal disclaimers. (Editor/RK)

Article evaluated the historical development of Catholic colleges and examined the question of whether it is possible for Catholic institutions to blend academic respectability with a commitment to religious values. (Author/RK)

Presents a discussion of philosophy and psychology related to science education. Three classroom modes are suggested and discussed: Authoritarian Eclectic, and Self-directed. Various modes are compared with a model of Contemporary Philosophies. (EB)

An educational system designed to challenge present social values and yet works within the socioeconomic system is proposed for the African state of Tanzania. (DE)

Approaches for improving and increasing educational programs that relate skill learning with efforts to increase employment, productivity, and income in rural areas of developing nations are provided. (Author/DE)

The attempts of UNESCO member states to provide culturally adapted educational technologies to developing nations are described. (DE)

The restructuring of the Czechoslovakian educational system based on the 'parallel-progressive' method of instruction is described. Under this method the student proceeds from more general and complex considerations to specific or partial concepts. (DE)

In this paper, one of a series of Unesco technical reports, the author examines the idea of "technical cooperation among developing countries" (TCDC) and how it might lead to a "new international economic order" (NIEO). The first part of the paper contains a short history of TCDC. TCDC is seen by many as a self-help cooperative…

This collection of core bibliographies, which expands on an initial bibliography published in 1979 of the core resources housed in the Non-Formal Education Information Center at Michigan State University, comprises a basic stock of materials on nonformal education and women in development that have been contributed by development planners,…