Many areas of the world are engaged in linguistic and cultural conflict. This cultural complexity is a geopolitical reality which should be included in the human geography curriculum. The teacher can emphasize balanced accounts of cultural discord and can ask students for recommendations on how conflicts may be resolved. (CS)

Argues that when students in Third World nations use foreign materials and encounter a culture-concept gap, their teachers need coping mechanisms that help build up the students' store of background knowledge. (FL)

The effect of education and rural development in India is assessed from the standpoint of: farmers' education; out-of-school and college education of youth and women; university education; and school education. The general conclusion is that nonformal education has a direct and important contribution for rural development. (LBH)

Issues raised in the World Bank's Education Sector Working Paper are examined within the framework of other recent policy papers of donor agencies. (MM)

Identifies socioeconomic factors and political system variables associated with variation in educational policy outputs among developing nations. An effort is also made to determine which of these input factors has more significant influence on two educational policy dimensions: distributive spending and non-distributive spending. (Author/RK)

A historical review of teacher education development in Nigeria from 1890 to the present covers periods of experimentation, reorganization, and consolidation and independence. The lack of progress as well as the national potential for solving the problems are noted. (LBH)

Progress in primary and teacher education in Kano Province since 1968 is traced. Consideration is given to enrollments, repetition and dropping out, costs, Islamic schools, teacher availability, teacher education facilities and staff, and Grade II Examination results. (LBH)

Discussed are educational reforms decreed by the Revolutionary Government of Peru, including a pilot project with Indians. The program is particularly aimed to provide "initial education" to children between birth and 5 years from diminished socio-economic groups. (MS)

Focuses on the applicability of U.S.-originated communication models to research and practice in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and other countries. (MH)

A paper presented by The UNESCO Deputy Assistant Director-General for Education at a Tanzanian regional workshop in Unsolved Problems in Preparing Teachers for Basic Education. Deals with objectives, measurement, articulation with other parts of lifelong education, and how content, materials, and methods differ from those in conventional practice.…

The international community is becoming increasingly concerned with the impact of high adult mortality from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome on the welfare of children, particularly on the welfare of orphans. Very little is known about the consequences of being an orphan in developing countries. This paper analyzes the relationship between…

In Latin America, the number of poor increased in the 1980s by some 60 million people. It was estimated that one out of five Latin Americans lived in extreme poverty. The globalization of economies that took place in the 1990s does not seem to have brought a rapid solution to the problem since much of the growth observed takes place without…

The Global University System (GUS) [Utsumi, et al, 2003] is a worldwide initiative to create advanced telecommunications infrastructure for access to educational resources across national and cultural boundaries for global peace. GUS aims to create a worldwide consortium of universities to provide the underdeveloped world with access to 21st…

This paper traces the three major developmental strands that converged to contribute to the definition of the applied linguistics field in the Philippines: the institution and capacity-building work supported by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations; the forging of a vibrant consortium among three Filipino institutions of higher education to offer…

This report, a series of three background papers, was prepared as part of the Thailand Secondary Vocational Education Sector Study. The first background paper, "Intro Changing Workplaces, Changing Skills: Views from the Thai Private Sector on Work-Organization, Employee Recruitment and Selection" (Charles Abelmann, Lee Kian Chang,…