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Tunali, Sevinç – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2019
Bangladesh has a highly complicated education system with a wide variety of institutions in both primary and secondary levels. The total number of students in primary and secondary level is higher than 25 million. This huge system need to forecast the future for the sake of all stakeholders' students, parents, teachers alike. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Elementary Secondary Education
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Manago, Adriana M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2012
Social changes in indigenous Maya communities in Chiapas, Mexico toward increasing levels of formal education, commercialization, and urbanization are transforming traditional Maya developmental pathways toward adulthood. This mixed-methods study is based on interviews with a sample of 14 first-generation Maya university students who have also…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Commercialization, Student Attitudes, Values
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Spierings, Niels; Smits, Jeroen; Verloo, Mieke – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010
We analyzed determinants of women's employment with data for 40,792 women living in 103 districts of 6 Arab countries. We tested a new theoretical framework that addresses the roles of needs, opportunities, and values at multiple levels. At the microlevel (individual, family), socioeconomic factors, care duties, and traditionalism were important;…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Females, Arabs, Labor Market
Wagner, Daniel A.; Murphy, Katie M.; De Korne, Haley – Brookings Institution, 2012
Parents, educators, government ministers and policymakers in all contexts and countries around the world are concerned with learning and how to improve it. There are many reasons for this, but none is more important than the fact that learning is at the heart of success at the individual, community and global levels. Learning First is the title of…
Descriptors: Learning, Educational Research, Equal Education, Educational Objectives
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Smiley, Sarah L. – Journal of Geography, 2009
This article presents a lesson plan used to teach about African urbanization using Kenyan novels. Specifically, three urban novels written by Meja Mwangi are used. Based on a qualitative survey of student preference and learning, this lesson plan uses these novels alongside more traditional academic texts to achieve effective student learning.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Novels, Lesson Plans
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Dilworth, Richardson – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
This article compares American and Albanian college students' urban political experiences in order to understand the relevance of American models of urban politics to developing nations. Urban growth in Albania has created needs for teaching students about urban governance. The evidence presented here suggests that Albanians' conceptions of urban…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Problems, Activism, Foreign Countries
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Erdogan, Nevnihal; Akyol, Ayse; Ataman, Berk; Dokmeci, Vedia – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Numerous cross-cultural studies have focused on certain aspects of urban housing conditions and their social consequences. However, most data on housing satisfaction is restricted to Western countries. Relatively little comparison has been made between these findings and those in developing areas where rapid urbanization is occurring and where…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Neighborhoods, Living Standards, Housing
United Nations New York, NY. Dept. of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis. – 1993
This document is one in a series of studies that focus on the population policies and plans of a number of mega-cities in developing countries. The object of the series is to examine the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of the population policies of mega-cities from a broad perspective, emphasizing the reciprocal links between…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Eulie, Joseph – NASSP Bulletin, 1987
Presents comments of four Indonesian educators studying in the United States. Indonesia's third five-year plan assigns education an important role in national development. Tasks involve improving educational quality, extracurricular activities, athletic leadership, teacher training, and educational administration, which is now highly centralized.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education
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Binder, Melissa – Economics of Education Review, 1999
The 1980s were a "lost decade" for Latin America, due to the international debt crisis. This paper explores the lost decade's effects on schooling indicators in Mexico. Falling opportunity costs improved schooling indicators at the same time a reduced national income worsened them. Enrollment rates were stagnant. (33 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Costs, Developing Nations, Economic Change, Educational Finance
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Tas, Halil I.; Lightfoot, Dale R. – Journal of Geography, 2005
Squatter settlements or "shanty towns" are often viewed as a problem confined to poorer countries of the developing world. Turkey is centered neither in the impoverished Third World nor the industrialized West, but has experienced rapid urban growth and related modernizing social tensions attendant with its headlong pitch into the…
Descriptors: Rural to Urban Migration, Developing Nations, Slums, Urban Areas
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Sethuraman, S. V. – International Labour Review, 1977
Describes research studies on the employment potential and promotion of labor mobility through training of the informal sector (casual labor, small family concerns, etc.) in selected African countries. Includes a discussion of income and training problems exchanged in a seminar held from 27 March to 2 April 1977 in Accra, Ghana. (MF)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries
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Fuller, Bruce; And Others – Social Forces, 1990
Examines how the Mexican government's penetration into 299 rural and urban counties, 1900-40, was related to growth in trade and service jobs. Emphasizes the government's support for written literacy and mass schooling as subtle strategies for incorporating peasants into urban institutions. Contains 39 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Government Role
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1987
Part I of this resource guide contains listings of instructional materials, computer-assisted instructions, classroom activities and teaching methods. Part II deals with the knowledge base of population education. These publications are divided into 11 topics including: (1) demography; (2) documentation; (3) education (including environmental,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Family Planning, Foreign Countries
Camp, Sharon L., Ed.; And Others – 1981
This booklet contains reports presented by delegates from Mexico, Egypt, China, Bangladesh, Italy, the Philippines, Zaire, and Indonesia to the International Conference on Population and the Urban Future held in Rome, Italy, on September 1-4, 1980. An introductory statement by the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Population…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Family Planning, Foreign Countries
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