The World Bank's Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) purports to benchmark developing country education systems against global best practices. SABER covers 13 topics, called "domains," and has produced over 16,000 indicators of what the Bank considers best practice and applied them in over 130 countries. Yet this…

Since the 1940s, the concept of community participation has framed, mobilized, and legitimated national development agendas in the Singida Region of rural central Tanzania. Based on 19 months of ethnographic and archival research, this study examines the forms of community participation elicited through state and international development…

Educational development organizations and related global movements emerged and expanded during the twentieth century. Today, most activities in the educational development field are characterized by a scientific outlook that schooling can be transformed using measurable and generalizable knowledge, and most of its leaders believe that experts can…

Despite the tremendous expansion in education access worldwide, countries differ dramatically both in primary and secondary enrollment rates and in student achievement. Although per capita income explains a great deal of the difference, schooling outcomes vary sharply even among countries at similar income levels. This study asks whether…

Author stated that Foster's "Dilemmas of Educational Development" (AA 521 911) did not present a paradigm for guidance of developing nations. In fact, Foster's seemingly practical advice, based on his African experience, would not be satisfactory for Papua New Guinea. (RK)

The author of "Dilemmas of Educational Development" (AA 521 911) answered his critics, Carnoy, Devon, Petty, and La Belle, who commented earlier in this journal. (RK)

Article evaluated the need for education in Third World nations and how it influenced the whole nature, magnitude, and character of their development. (Author/RK)

Depicts the U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO as an opportunity to initiate a new approach to international cooperation. Summarizes the reasons for U.S. withdrawal, inherent risks (isolationism, Soviet dominance, lack of a suitable replacement program), and steps in developing a new international educational organization more acceptable to U.S. values.…

Criticizes Zachariah's use of microlevel metaphors ("lumps of clay" and "growing plants") to explain major trends in theories of education and national development in developing countries. Discusses emergence of a neo-Marxist perspective on this area of comparative education. Suggests the need for a theoretical perspective…

Author critically evaluated Foster's viewpoints on economic and educational development in developing countries (AA 521 911) as well as the interaction between developing nations and developed nations, such as Latin America and the United States. (RK)

Author reviewed the implications of Foster's argument (AA 521 911) for Latin America. He suggested that Foster viewed the role of education in economic development rather than through the wider perspective of education and social change. (Author/RK)

The "revisionist" educational line that China is denouncing is in many particulars the educational policy adopted in the Soviet Union in the 1930's after the failure and repudiation of an earlier, more "revolutionary", educational policy. (Author)

The author argues that in certain sectors of a society, especially a developing one, the best plan for educational development may be no plan. To illustrate, he analyzes the day-to-day survival problems of the Latin American urban poor and the ways that formal schooling exacerbates these problems. (Author/SJL)

This paper attempted to show that demand for education in a "developing" country need not be explosive, and, indeed, that enrollment in schools may decline significantly even though the supply of facilities (teachers, classrooms, low or non-existent fees) is maintained. (Author/RK)

This essay is a first attempt to delineate the different threads woven into the conceptual tapestry of comparative education in North America, and some of the socio-political values that have pervaded basic research and policy recommendations. (Author)