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Alsop, Steve; Ames, Patricia; Arroyo, Graciela Cordero; Dippo, Don – International Review of Education, 2010
This article explores distinctive features of a 5-year international education development project set in rural northern Peru (PROMEB, the "Proyecto de Mejoramiento de la Educacion Basica"). Grounded within a partnership between teacher educators from Peru, Mexico and Canada, and rural Peruvian teachers, students and their communities,…
Descriptors: Community Development, International Education, Demonstration Programs, Foreign Countries
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Alsop, Steve; Dippo, Don; Zandvliet, David B. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2007
This paper offers reflections on two transformative teacher education projects. The first a global communities module is set in a university in Vancouver and utilizes the lens of social ecology to examine the roles of teachers in bringing an awareness of local/global issues to their students' learning experiences. The second, a Canadian…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Ecology, Sustainable Development
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Primary Educ., Literacy & Adult Educ., Educ. in Rural Areas – 1986
This report contains case studies from six countries on local efforts to ease the transition of youth from school to work and to stop or prevent them from regressing to semiliteracy or illiteracy. The countries studied are Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, Yugoslavia, and Zimbabwe. A short summary of each of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Programs, Developed Nations, Developing Nations