This study describes various patterns of peer tutoring and is based on the use of cultural traditions and endogenous methods, on techniques and equipment acquired from other cultures, on problems presented by the adoption of educational technologies, and on methods needing little sophisticated equipment. A dozen peer tutoring systems are…

Argues for the use of peer teaching in Africa, in which students add to each other's knowledge by exchanging their skills and points of view. This would help alleviate the shortage of teachers and would promote educational independence for the developing world. An information campaign should be mobilized in support of this approach. (Author/BC)

A pilot project (to run from 1974 to 1979) to improve the delivery system of primary education in rural areas of the Philippines (Project Impact) and Indonesia (Proyek Pamong) is described in this progress report. Underway in seven villages, the experiment (aimed specifically at increasing schooling opportunities for young people in the Third…