REEFGAME is a computer-assisted role-playing game that explores the interactions among management strategies, livelihood options, and ecological degradation in subsistence fishing communities. The tool has been successfully used in the Philippines and a variety of student workshops. In the field, REEFGAME operated as a two-way learning tool,…

One conference address and two reports on adult education in Zambia are presented. The address is entitled "Adult Education and Industrialization" and the reports are "Adult Education and Industrialisation" and "Adult Education and Rural Development," respectively. (CK)

Guidelines are provided for developing illustrations for use in distance education materials for rural adults in different cultural situations. (STS)

A brief description of a Unesco project designed to give a realistic idea of existing problems by providing two-way communication between rural villages and government services. (AA)

Adult education in Kenya is mainly concerned with dissemination of technology and ideas to rural production units to increase awareness and innovativeness. Systematic weakness in the development of communication as a major concommitant to the design of development programs and the development of ideas is discussed. (Author/EA)

Posits that, in order to reduce underdevelopment, solutions must be found for problems of production and productivity, and for the improvement of living conditions of the rural population through the elimination of structural constraints on development. (Author/JOW)

Presents a critique of rural development trends in Third World countries. Analyzes the tensions and contradictions between the theory of adult education as a learner participation activity and the manipulative role it often plays in the maintenance of the status quo. (SK)

A brief resume of literacy, adult education, and rural development activities have been abstracted from the UNESCO Director-General's report for 1974. (LH)

Although failures have been encountered in the West African cooperative movement, farm cooperatives are an indispensable tool for rural development. They can generate an investment budget at the village level and can provide a stimulating framework for education. The Senegalese farm cooperative movement has experienced a number of problems. Three…

Although the content model based on behaviorism and the process model based on humanism can both be used in training, a case study of training rural development workers in Thailand shows advantages of the process model. The model is based on similar principles to rural development and on adult learning principles. (SK)

Context is a key factor in designing and delivering adult learning programmes, and in multilingual environments the choice of language plays a decisive role. Four programmes, two in Asia (Bhutan Myanmar) and two in Africa (Ghana and Uganda), which focus on learning for development, integrate language considerations in different ways, related both…

Outlines perspectives of nonformal education programs: (1) development (human resource development and integrated rural development) and (2) emancipatory (radical and liberal). (SK)

Guidelines and objectives for organizing an educationally oriented farmers' fair for rural Indians are presented. Various activities are suggested and described, including: research farm visits, question and answer sessions between farmers and experts, farm equipment demonstrations, agro-industrial exhibitions, and competitions. (LH)

Alternative models of education which have succeeded in India are described. They are institutions of non-formal education and rural development with roots in the schooling process of ancient India. The author notes present factors which make India well suited for such systems to function better than the present British-imposed system. (JT)

Agricultural and extension educators interested in international agricultural development must answer several questions to become oriented within the field before undertaking an international assignment. The questions are as follows: (1) why do you want to work internationally? (2) what do you have to offer as a professional? and (3) what is your…