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Hollander, Astrid – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
An Inter-agency Panel of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) experts, drawn from seven United Nations and other international agencies, was one of the highlights in the programme of UNESCO's International Experts Meeting "Learning for Work, Citizenship and Sustainability" (Bonn, Germany, 25-28 October 2004). The Panel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Vocational Education, Focus Groups
Lyngdoh, Bremley W. B. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
According to a 2004 International Labour Organization (ILO) report, young people represent 130 million of the world's 550 million working poor who are unable to lift themselves and their families above the equivalent of the $1 per day poverty line. These young people struggle to survive, often performing work under unsatisfactory conditions in the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Youth Employment, Poverty, Low Income Groups
Buchert, Lene, Ed.; Epskamp, Kees, Ed. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2000
This journal focuses on comparative education and has four major sections. The "Viewpoint/Controversy" section contains one article: "Is the Globalization of the Economy Creating Values for a New Civilization?" (Koichiro Matsuura). The "Open File: Rethinking Educational Aid" section contains the following articles:…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Childrens Rights, Comparative Education, Developing Nations
Ordonez, Victor, Ed.; Maclean, Rupert, Ed. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2000
This collection of scholarly essays on comparative education is divided into four sections. The first section, Viewpoints/Controversies, contains the essay "Educational Policies and Contents in Developing Countries" (Jacques Hallak). The second section, Open File: Education in Asia, contains the following essays: "Some Current…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Bottani, Norberto, Ed.; Favre, Bernard, Ed. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2001
The editorial, "Some Aspects of the Educational Change Dynamic: Setting School Autonomy and Evaluation in Context" (Cecilia Braslavsky), explains the focus of this issue. This "Open File: School Autonomy and Evaluation" section contains: "Introduction to the Open File" (Norberto Bottani; Bernard Favre); "IPES The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Hargreaves, Andy, Ed.; Lo, Leslie N. K., Ed. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2000
This theme issue focuses on professionalism in teaching. It begins with an article in Viewpoints/Controversies titled "A Renewed Sense for the Purposes of Schooling: The Challenges of Education and Social Cohesion in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Central Asia" (Stephen P. Heyneman; Sanja Todoric-Bebic). In Open File:…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Messadi, Mahmoud – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 1972
Educational progress in developing nations has often had adverse effects as objectives were designed after those of well developed countries; tomorrow's educational objectives should be directed toward the development of the individual's aptitude, imparting the ability to learn constantly and attain full development of all faculties for the whole…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Okon, Wincenty – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 1972
Schools exist to prepare non-adults and adults for various functions in the community. The five aims discussed here are: (a) duties of a citizen, (b) professional work, (c) participation in social life, (d) private life, (e) organization of leisure. (JB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
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Elvin, Lionel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 1972
Educational history verifies the importance of institutional embodiment of reforming ideas but too little attention has been paid to the need for it in planning for educational development in the last two decades. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History
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Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 1972
Alternatives to current practices and policies in education in developing countries are presented to optimize investment in schooling; conventional educational systems have been disappointingly inefficient in the production of literate and skilled young people. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
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Hicter, Marcel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 1972
Lifelong education can be the primary agent of change in the educational system, such change being necessary to prepare humans to cope with the demands upon them in today's world. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cultural Education, Educational Change, Environmental Education
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Furter, Pierre – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 1972
Identification of the clientele of adult education programs will prevent difficulties which may arrive when individuals with varying degrees of literacy are combined under one learning program; findings indicate those for whom the programs are truly intended (the illiterate) drop out because of inferior feelings. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Educational Practices
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Rahnema, Majid – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 1972
A radical re-structuring of traditional schooling requires research into effective means of offering the whole population of developing nations access to the educational system: the role of mass media, means and limits of functional education, institutionalization of lifelong education. (JB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Wiltshire, H. C. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 1972
The new British University began teaching in January, 1971, is financed by the Department of Education and Science, is open to all 21 and over, has no academic entry requirements. Using multimedia, having no restrictions on time used to build course credits toward degrees, it will build to an undergraduate population of over 40,000 part time…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Degree Requirements, Educational Change, External Degree Programs
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Duffy, Terence – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2000
Explores the issue of peace education in Northern Ireland in a broad sense. Examines the sectarian context of schooling in Northern Ireland, the growing number of integrated schools, peace and conflict studies in colleges, school-level curricular innovations in peace education, interschool activities, positive attitudes of youth, and the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, De Facto Segregation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries