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Alghamdi, Amani Khalaf H.; Alsaadi, Reem Khudher; Alwadey, Afnan Ali; Najdi, Eman Ahmed – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2022
Empowered women are a major factor in advancing towards progress and prosperity via national development. But national development plans have received very limited academic analysis. A quantitative descriptive research design was used to discern what actually exists in Saudi Arabia's recent national development plan ("Vision 2030")…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Economic Development
Kidd, Ross – 1982
Intended as a tool for non-formal education practitioners and researchers in identifying a range of relatively fugitive material, this bibliography includes 1,779 references to descriptive and analytical materials concerning the use of the performing arts as a medium for education and social change in the Third World. An introductory essay offers…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Educational Development, Folk Culture
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Wolpe, Harold – Comparative Education, 1995
As a legacy of apartheid, South Africa's higher education system is differentiated along racial lines in terms of institutional areas of specialization, research production, and graduate education. The University of the Western Cape's 1982 mission statement, which defined its oppositional role under apartheid, might be revised to address the tasks…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, College Role, Community Development
Kerr, Stephen T. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1982
Discusses appropriate technology such as folk theater and instructional radio in the development of Third-World nations and emphasizes the importance of community participation in all stages of the educational process. Ways in which this can be stimulated and channelled to support development in other areas are examined. Sixteen references are…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Developing Nations, Drama
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Aderinoye, Rashid; Ojokheta, Kester – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
This article examines open-distance learning in Nigeria and the role it plays in personal, community, and national development. Following consultation with existing literature, a qualitative survey was conducted using questionnaires, interviews, and participatory experience. Although particular emphasis was paid to the Nigerian context, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Distance Education, Role of Education
ASPBAE Courier Service, 1982
This journal contains a series of articles dealing with the theme of development in Asia and rural Indonesia. Included in the journal are the following articles: "Nonformal Education in Rural Areas of Developing Countries," by members of the Rural Project Team from the Centre for Continuing Education at Australian National University;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Continuing Education, Developing Nations