Showing papers in "International Journal of Educational Development in 1998"

TL;DR: The World Bank argues that vocational education and training in developing countries is best left to individuals, enterprises and private sector training institutions with government interventions kept to a minimum as discussed by the authors, but this policy prescription is seriously flawed both conceptually and in relation to the current VET policies adopted by governments in the advanced industrial economies as well as the high performing Asian economies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aimed at eliciting teacher views on teaching, their sources of motivation and the conceptual frames out of which they conduct their work, and found that teachers effectively abdicated responsibility for exercising agency over what they taught, to whom, how and for what reason.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of the Colombian New School (Escuela Nueva) program in raising student achievement in Spanish and mathematics and found that New Schools are better endowed with inputs like textbooks and place greater emphasis on active learning than traditional rural schools.

TL;DR: The 1990 World Conference on Education for All as discussed by the authors was a seminal event in the standardization of Western models of mass education in international education conventions and declarations, as typified by the 1990 WEC.

TL;DR: One common characteristic shared by the countries of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe was the manner by which education in the party/state was expected to provide ideological cohesion as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relative importance of private and public costs of primary education in five countries (Burkina Faso, Bhutan, Myanmar, Uganda, and Viet Nam).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the ways in which the flourishing of the market economy has affected educational development in mainland China and examine how China's education has gone through a process of ''marketization''.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors examined the relationship between employees' educational backgrounds and their performance in the workplace, as well as their income, based on a survey of 1433 employees in two cities in China, and concluded that pre-employment education gives better work performance, but that vocational education does not lead to better performance than general education.

TL;DR: The cascade method of dissemination works on the principle that a small team of trainers will train a larger group, who will in turn pass on their knowledge and skills to a further group as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the context and content of current national education sector policy documents from four African countries (Ethiopia, 1994, Mozambique, 1995, Namibia, 1993, and Zambia, 1996) in relation to the educational policy agenda presented in World Bank publications and in the documents of the Jomtien Education for All conference.

TL;DR: This article found that aid salaries demotivated local lecturers, while the expatriates may have been resolving guilt about their greater pay by convincing themselves of their superiority, which could also result in their own demotivation.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the claims of action research as an appropriate research methodology for investigating West African education and concluded that since action research is sensitive to context and is directly relevant to practitioners, it might avoid some of the criticisms that have been levelled at some other methodologies.

TL;DR: Among Indian nomads, whose traditional occupation is becoming ever less viable, attempts to evolve a peripatetic adult literacy programme met with only limited success as discussed by the authors, since it could not offer the economic, cultural and symbolic capital they seek in their present circumstances, viewed formal schools as the route to empowerment.

TL;DR: The authors developed a model to provide a holistic analysis of educational gaps by first differentiating two aspects of a gap, a momentary and longitudinal aspect and then examining data about the system at both the macro and micro level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a series of short external summative evaluations of environmental education projects in developing countries, and distill from these experiences some cultural issues, constraints and differences that either confront, or are created by western evaluators in the developing world.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the explanations suggested by language and educational policy scholars for the use of languages of wider communication in education in developing countries, namely national integration, comparative cost, international communication, elite closure, and the world-system.

TL;DR: The authors examines tensions in South African educational policy caused by existing policies favoring state initiated redistribution of resources and power on the one hand and the wider context of a mounting emphasis on limiting public expenditure and increasing private provision on the other.

TL;DR: In this article, the negative impact of such an enrollment expansion on school conditions and learning is explored using a cross-district time series analysis of Tamil Nadu, India as a case in point.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the strategies adopted for expanding education and explore observed problems in a case study of Shenzhen, and examine the dilemma of general versus vocational/technical education and formal versus non-formal education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the ups and downs of TRCs and their related structures of school clusters in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe and make a case for the reversal of these trends, in particular so as to create space for indigenous approaches to educational development.

TL;DR: The authors examined the aspirations of Bedouin Arab mothers toward their children's educational attainment and future occupations and found that 62% of the mothers lived in government planned towns, and 38% lived in spontaneous tribal settlements.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the viability of the CONALEP system by evaluating graduates' labor market performance in comparison with other forms of education and supplement the scant literature on the transition from technical education to work and on the use of technical skills.

TL;DR: Hong Kong case study in teacher education examines the issues, describes the opportunities and difficulties involved, and argues that cultural adaptation merits a higher priority than at present as discussed by the authors. But the modification of distance education materials and the provision of local tutorial support are only rarely undertaken.

TL;DR: This paper examined participatory intercultural adult education in the context of an integrated development project in the Peruvian Amazon and examined the uses and political implications of participatory approaches in adult education programs more generally and investigated the theoretical and conceptual developments of ''interculturalism'' in educational programmes for and by indigenous peoples in Latin America.

TL;DR: This article conducted an in-depth study of one pre-service elementary teacher's views about mathematics and mathematics teaching and found that the themes that emerged and that were emphasised by the participant were: limited vision for mathematics, construction of meaning in mathematics, knowledge of mathematics content and poor self-perception of primary mathematics teachers.

TL;DR: Rooted in local cultures and concepts, the accumulated knowledge and experience of both families and professionals should be recognized, formulated and used in modern disability service planning.

TL;DR: In this article, a model for sustainable professional development, drawn from the authors' experiences in managing a six-year professional development project for teachers' college lecturers in Papua New Guinea, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a planning approach is advocated that stresses the need to constantly monitor the education/economy interface, alongside an associated research agenda focusing on the relationship between internal and external efficiency.