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Ó Tuama, Séamus; O'Sullivan, Siobhán – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
Cork, the Republic of Ireland's second most populous city, is one of 12 UNESCO Learning Cities globally. Becoming a learning city requires a sophisticated audit of education, learning and other socio-economic indicators. It also demands that cities become proactively engaged in delivering to the objectives set by the "Beijing Declaration on…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Improvement, International Organizations, Program Design, Program Implementation
de Jong, Ester J. – 1995
It is argued that language minority education has generally been perceived as a separate program or model, and as a result has often become marginalized within its larger school setting, which negatively influences students, teachers, and the program. An alternative approach to program design, intended to avoid this marginalization by making…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Educational Strategies
van Oudenhoven, Nico; Wazir, Rekha – 1997
This paper explores early childhood education (ECD) and social integration within a common framework and against the backdrop of experience gained in these fields in the following 12 Mediterranean nations: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, and Turkey. The paper notes that…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Child Rearing, Day Care
Kissam, Ed – 1996
This paper examines the effectiveness of social services provided to Mexican immigrants in rural California. In addition, the paper offers recommendations for service delivery models and for rethinking the objectives of immigrant social policy. At the most basic level, current social program planning and associated analyses of policy options fail…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role
Schwab, R. G. – 2001
Two innovative approaches to delivering vocational education and training (VET) in schools were examined to identify ways of helping Australia's indigenous students achieve academic success by ensuring a close cultural fit between course content and the realities of local employment opportunities. The first VET-in-School program, which was located…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Education, Course Content, Cultural Pluralism
2002
The first of three papers from this symposium on cross-cultural human resource development (HRD), "Determinants of Supply of Technical Training Opportunities for Human Capital Development in Kenya" (Moses Waithanji Ngware, Fredrick Muyia Nafukho) reports findings from interviews of technical training institute department heads in Kenya…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Cherokee (Tribe), Comparative Analysis