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Peer reviewedRosenberg, Diana – Information Development, 1993
Discussion of the information needs of rural people in developing countries focuses on rural community resource centers in Africa. Topics addressed include centers run by the local community versus those run by a public library system; rural resource centers in Sierra Leone; community information centers in Asia; information transfer; and training…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Needs
Steinemann, Namji Kim; Fiske, Edward B.; Sackett, Victoria – 2001
This report presents an analysis of the status of teaching and learning about Asia in U.S. K-12 schools. Chapter one, "The United States and Asia: Opportunities and Challenges," addresses Asia's global profile, Asia as a market, as a partner, as a competitor, and as the invisible unknown, Asia in America, and the need for an Asia-related…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textInternational Council for Educational Development, New York, NY. – 1971
This publication lists area programs of study in international education at United States colleges and universities. Inclusiveness over selectivity has been favored; simple faculty review committees are included, as well as full area studies programs offering graduate and undergraduate programs. Part I of the directory is a listing by state,…
Descriptors: Area Studies, College Programs, Cross Cultural Studies, Directories
Regional English Center (Singapore). – 1968
The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Secretariat was established to facilitate the exchange of resources and to stimulate cooperation in educational activities among the Southeast Asian countries. The ministers appointed a Coordinating Committee to formulate plans for the establishment of the Regional English Language Centre (RELC). These…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Education Service Centers, English (Second Language), Facility Improvement
Yang, Winston L. Y., Ed.; Yang, Teresa S., Ed. – 1968
Four essays by area specialists are included in this bibliographic guide to American library resources on Asia in an attempt to furnish some bibliographic control over the vast number of resources and reference aids that are often lost, unknown, and inaccessible to scholars and librarians. The volume is divided into three main sections. In the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian History, Bibliographies, Directories
Regional English Center (Singapore). – 1970
The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Secretariat was established to facilitate the exchange of resources and to stimulate cooperation in educational activities among the Southeast Asian countries. The ministers appointed a Coordinating Committee to formulate plans for the establishment of the Regional English Language Centre (RELC). These…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Education Service Centers, English (Second Language), Financial Needs
East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. – 1989
For the United States perhaps the most pressing issue today is the need to increase the national capacity to understand and interact with the peoples and economies of Asia and the Pacific. The East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii) has undertaken a project in this direction, the Consortuim for Teaching Asia and the Pacific in the Schools (CTAPS).…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Curriculum Enrichment, Curriculum Study Centers
Regional English Center (Singapore). – 1969
The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Secretariat was established to facilitate the exchange of resources and to stimulate cooperation in educational activities among the Southeast Asian countries. The ministers appointed a Coordinating Committee to formulate plans for the establishment of the Regional English Language Centre (RELC). These…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Education Service Centers, English (Second Language), Facility Planning
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1976
The twenty case studies presented in these reports are examples of experiments in Asian nations which have been conducted as specific responses to local problems in teacher education. The materials, originally presented in a 1975 conference of the Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development, are organized into three basic subject areas:…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Case Studies, Developing Nations, Developmental Tasks
