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Durham, Sheliah; Spearman, Mindy – American Educational History Journal, 2015
The textile industry surged in late nineteenth-century South Carolina, quickly becoming the primary source of revenue and employment in the Northwestern, "Upstate" area of the state. The influx of industry created new job opportunities for Upstate rural farmers and sharecroppers who previously were engaged in agrarian pursuits. In order…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Manufacturing Industry, Semiskilled Workers, Regional Characteristics
United Nations Economic and Social Council, New York, NY. – 1983
This document contains a systematized inventory of the measures relating to the legal and social status of women adopted in various regional and world forums. The inventory was used to study the legal situation of Latin American and Caribbean women, defined according to the resolutions and mandates of the United Nations system. Organized by forum…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Developing Nations, Discriminatory Legislation, Employed Women
Sharvashidze, Nino; Bryant, Miles – Management in Education, 2014
This article contributes to the International Study of Leadership Development Network initiative to identify high-need schools around the globe by focusing on a small minority ethnic school in the country of Georgia. It will be clear in this article that the challenges the Karajala School administrator faces in this former Soviet bloc school stand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools, Ethnicity, Minority Groups
Knutsson, Beniamin – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
In the year 2000, Rwanda launched an ambitious long-term development strategy intended to render a fundamental transformation from an agrarian to a knowledge society by 2020. Knowledge society, however, could be viewed as a "floating signifier" open for a wide range of interpretations. Guided by a policy translation perspective the aim…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Social Change, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Clark, Lynn; Majumdar, Saswati; Bhattacharjee, Joydeep; Hanks, Anne Case – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2015
This paper is an examination of a teacher professional development program in northeast Louisiana, that provided 30 teachers and their students with the technology, skills, and content knowledge to collect data and explore weather trends. Data were collected from both continuous monitoring weather stations and simple school-based weather stations…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Rural Education, Teacher Education, Professional Development
Flowers, Sara M. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Citizens need to be college prepared in higher numbers and with greater urgency than in the past. This growing need for a college-prepared workforce places increased demand on schools to create college-ready students. The Career and College Readiness Standards for much of public education foster the skills and dispositions for academic excellence,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Bound Students, College Preparation, College Readiness
Popplow, Marcus – Annals of Science, 2012
This essay contributes to a recent strain of research that questions clear-cut dichotomies between "scientists" and "artisans" in the early modern period. With a focus on the exploitation of agrarian resources, it argues for the appreciation of a more complex panorama of intersecting knowledge systems spanning from botany as…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Innovation, Agriculture, Botany
Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Way, Niobe; Chen, Xinyin – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
Social ecological and dynamic systems theories propose that human development is shaped by the cumulative impact of social interactions in proximal and distal settings, which are themselves influenced by social and economic forces. The understanding of the links between microsystem-level factors (such as parenting styles and parent-child…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Economic Change, Child Development
Barrett, Shermaine Ann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to demonstrate how adult education enabled the process of economic and social change, and national development in Jamaica through a critical review of two cases of adult education provisions in Jamaica since the country gained independence in 1962. Content analysis of various documents from primary…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
Sahlberg, Pasi – School Administrator, 2012
Schools everywhere vary little with regard to the subjects they teach, the classrooms where students learn, and the students' opinions about school. They do differ significantly in one area, however: the way they address the inequalities and diversity their students bring to school. For the small, agrarian, and relatively poor nation of Finland,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Opportunities, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries
Getz, Christy – Rural Sociology, 2008
This paper explores the relevance of extra local market linkages and local-level social capital to sustainable livelihood outcomes in two agrarian communities on Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Contextualized by the specificity of Mexico's transition from state-directed rural development to neoliberally-guided rural development in the 1990s, findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agriculture, Rural Development, Social Capital
Ruef, Martin; Patterson, Kelly – Social Forces, 2009
Under conditions of uncertainty, we predict that development will be tied to the idiosyncrasy of organizational forms represented within local regions. Our investigation applies this theory to data on 342 counties and 43,352 businesses in the U.S. South during Reconstruction, finding support for the thesis that organizational idiosyncrasy…
Descriptors: United States History, Community Development, Business, Counties
Taylor, Peter Leigh – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
Community-based forestry has received much recent attention as an effort to protect threatened Southern forests by linking conservation with sustainable livelihoods. Many researchers have emphasized the importance of effective organization for successful community-based forestry. While significant attention has been paid to community-level…
Descriptors: Maya (People), Governance, Forestry, Foreign Countries
Gordon, June A. – Ethnography and Education, 2013
The Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, where images of magical splendor obscure its challenges, provides a viewpoint from which to understand the contradictions that emerging economies face as they move towards mass education. Isolated from the outside world in every sense except for the mythologies that surround it, Bhutan is attempting to move from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Social Change, Technological Advancement
Baali, Fuad – 1972
The purpose of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the nature, scope, and implications of the rural development in the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The first section of the paper deals with the forces that have caused changes in agrarian reform policies as they affected rural development in these countries. Specifically…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Area Studies, Cooperatives, Data Collection