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Presents news briefs on education as of July 6, 1981. Complaints of foreign students in Romania on the living conditions and the prevalence of corruption in higher education in the country; Elimination of mathematics courses from elementary and secondary schools in Kenya; Information on a protest staged by Nobel laureates concerning the internal exile imposed by Soviet authorities on computer scientist and Jewish activist Viktor Brailovsky.

A comparative study is reported of basic education in 10 African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Benin, Mali, Upper Volta, and Angola. Basic education is defined as learning experiences to which all citizens are entitled or which are required to help them develop their potential to function effectively as individuals and members of society. Data sources include findings of seminars on basic education and teacher training for basic education and other relevant...

The Radio Language Arts Project (RLAP) is a pilot program being developed in Kenya to provide a cost effective English-as-a-second-language program via radio to rural children. The RLAP will use an integrative language arts approach focusing on language function, meaning, and communication activities, with listening and oral language preceding reading and writing. Each 20- to 30-minute broadcast will consist of several brief segments of varied learning activities designed to teach or...

Five science reading booklets were developed to foster the development of communication, observation, and experimentation skills in Uganda elementary school students. Topics selected, resulting from interviews with teachers and students, included: 1) rain; 2) round worms; 3) caterpillars; 4) butterflies; and 5) insects in the school ground. Booklets were evaluated after an initial trial (focusing on vocabulary level, time required to read the readers, student interest, whether related...

A workshop on "Curriculum for Early Childhood Education," held in the summer of 1979 at the Kenya Institute of Education, aimed to familiarize participants with the problems facing early childhood education in Africa. Specific workshop objectives were (1) to familiarize participants with the psychological, social, political, and economic factors influencing the young African child; (2) to enable participants to apply educational implications inferred from the first objective; and (3) to...

A survey of basic education in 13 Eastern African countries (Madagascar, Burundi, Comores, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, and Somalia) covers basic education programs and UNICEF's supporting role. Basic education is seen as a concept evolved in the region, involving formal school systems and educational programs for out-of-school children, adolescents, and adults; and having goals determined by political philosophies of different...

Describes a literacy program in Kamirithu, Kenya. Discusses the needs of the community and the importance of integrating literacy projects into the process of community development. (JOW)

This publication contains reports, papers, and presentations from the International Seminar on Research in Adult Education and Development. The keynote address, The Role (Past, Present, and Future) of Adult Education in Development, reviews the five-year Design for Action from the 1976 International Conference on Adult Education and Development. The report of the research seminar contains these sections: key issues raised, summaries of ten papers and presentations (panels and consortium),...

Presents the text of a speech given by Dr. Taaitta Towett at the opening ceremony of a seminar on the promotion of education for international understanding in primary schools in January 1979 in Kenya. (CK)

To provide an introduction to processes, issues, and problems of curriculum development in functional literacy and nonformal education, a monograph provides 11 chapters, each followed by exercises. The first chapter discusses curriculum development in relation to national development. The second chapter covers concepts of functional literacy and nonformal education, with particular reference to development objectives. A third chapter presents a model of the curriculum development process,...

Guidelines are presented for applying cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis techniques to nonformal education (NFE) programs in developing nations. The methods are based on workshops conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Guatemala. The manual is designed for those personnel responsible for planning, administering, and evaluating NFE programs, and government or private agency officials who make investment decisions. The manual is intended as a guide, and is organized as follows:...

The nine papers in this document represent the final report of a workshop on research on literacy in developing countries. It is noted in the introduction by Kenneth King that research in literacy tends to be performed by persons who are also literacy activists and that the problem of motivation seems to be central to most literacy research. It is suggested that adult literacy research must be connected with research on the quality and effectiveness of elementary and secondary education. The...

Basic education as the first stage of lifelong education is emerging as a significant alternative to traditional education, especially for rural populations in Third World countries. Basic education is a set of interrelated ideas: community orientation of education, integration of formal, nonformal, and informal learning into lifelong learning, stress on practical skills, involvement of the total population, and overcoming traditional subject orientation of curriculum. Education, an integral...

A six-week unit on the Kikuyu people of Kenya for grades 4, 5, and 6 is presented. An overview of the unit lists major concepts and skills to be developed, behavioral objectives, and materials needed for each unit. Following the overview, seven lessons are outlined. In lesson one, students analyze their attitudes toward African culture. Lesson two focuses on Kikuyu housing. Students construct diaramas displaying traditional and modern homes. Lesson three considers the importance of the...

Six papers describe use of the radio for in-school and out-of-school formal education in this first volume of working papers on how radio can and is being used for education and development. Part one on in-school education contains: a Nicaraguan project to teach mathematics to first grade children (including curriculum, materials, teacher activities, problems, and envisioned solutions); an evaluation of the radio schools of Tarahumara, Mexico, begun by Jesuit missionaries in 1955, geared...

The Kikuyu seminar, third in a series of international meeting on the use of comparative studies as a tool of adult education, focused on the application of the comparative approach to developing countries, particularly Africa. Essential components of the structure of adult education were divided into main sectors, which are individually discussed within the document: (1) goals of adult education; (2) content of adult education; (3) providing agencies; (4) administration and finance; (5)...

Programs from abroad represented at the January, 1975 Multinational Workshop on Adult Education (Washington, D. C.) included: Rural Reconstruction Movement (Philippines); Nonformal Education for Rural Women (Andhra Pradesh, India); Accion Cultural Popular (Colombia); Village Polytechnic Centers (Kenya); CONCORDE (Honduras); National Adult Education Plan (Tanzania); Functional Literacy and Family Life Planning Program (Thailand). (Author/EA)

The six descriptive position papers were prepared after selection for the Multi-National Workshop on Basic and Functional Education for Adults. Those selected are significant innovative programs of adult education in other countries that may have direct applicability to improving program practices in various parts of the world. The six programs described are: Adult Education in Tanzania; A National Movement; The Functional Literacy and Family Life Planning Project (Thailand); Accion Cultural...