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Souresh Cornet; Saswat Barpanda; Marc-Antoine Diego Guidi; P. K. Viswanathan – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims at understanding how higher education institutions (HEIs) can contribute to sustainable development, by designing their programmes for bringing about a transformative impact on communities and students, and also to examine what alternative pedagogical approaches could be used for that. In the past decades, HEIs have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Higher Education, Community Development
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Tschurenev, Jana – Comparative Education, 2021
This article discusses the 'Indianisation', 'nationalisation', and 'ruralisation' of the Montessori method in India at the eve, and in the aftermath of the country's political independence (1947). From 1914 onwards, Indian nationalists received Montessori's ideas through publications, the networks of the new education movement, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Educational History, Rural Education
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2014
The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2014 proceedings: (1) Legal Profession in the Technological Era with Special Reference to Women Lawyers in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Social Studies, Lawyers, Females
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Mishra, A. P. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1972
Article describes India's progress in teaching farmers improved agricultural methods. (MM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Community Development, Demonstration Programs
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Panda, Santosh – Distance Education, 2005
Following initial scepticism, the growth and developments within distance education in India have been tremendous. This paper records those developments in one of the largest distance education systems in the world with regard to its contribution to national development. The paper also examines curricular programmes, access and equity, media and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Empowerment
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 1982
This guide for Peace Corps volunteers emphasizes the importance of visual aids in communicating ideas, concepts, and behavior, and in motivating people to change life patterns. Guidelines for the selection and effective use of materials in health education that will be understood in the target culture are provided. The packet illustrates and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Development, Developing Nations, Health Education
Rudramoorthy, B. – 1964
Extension, the process of extending the knowledge of recent advances in science and technology to the people who need it, has been emphasized in India since the introduction of the Community Development Programme in 1952. Community development involves two distinct processes--extension education and community organization--and has had four…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Community Development, Developing Nations