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Simone White, Editor; Jayne Downey, Editor; Melyssa Fuqua, Editor – Springer, 2024
This book brings together the two fields of 'educational leadership' and 'rurality' and builds on the growing field of inquiry into the significance of 'adding the rural' to all aspects of education. It explores the vibrancy and variety of opportunities and challenges that are met by rural education leaders and researchers from two particular…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Barriers
Shah, S. Y., Ed. – 1989
Intended for policy planners, administrators, and scholars, this document contains summaries and excerpts of official government of India documents published since 1939 on adult education. The document is in three parts. The first part contains government documents that deal exclusively with adult education. Their subjects include adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Educational Policy, Extension Education
Valdes, Alberto; Mistiaen, Johan A. – 2003
This report constitutes a step toward designing an integrated strategy for rural poverty reduction in Brazil. The report contains an updated and detailed profile of the rural poor in the northeast and southeast regions of Brazil; identifies key components of rural poverty in those regions; and proposes a five-pronged strategic framework in which…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Elementary Education
Cong, Xiaoping – University of British Columbia Press, 2007
"Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State" is an innovative account of educational and social transformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-century China. It focuses on the unique nature of Chinese teachers' schools, which bridged Chinese and Western ideals, and the critical role that these schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Development, Educational History
Smith, Eldon D.; And Others – 1978
Research literature bearing on factors related to industrialization in rural areas is reviewed in order to identify information that might be useful in improving cost-effectiveness of public programs at local, state, and national levels as well as of private action taken by voluntary organizations in an effort to increase manufacturing employment…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Community Action, Educational Policy, Employment Potential