Achieving the millennium development goals (MDGs) forms the central focus of many donor agencies' policies, resulting in a renewed focus on basic education. This paper explores the different perspectives of donors and the Government of Rwanda (GoR) with regard to education and training. GoR discourse mirrors the international poverty reduction…

Human rights have become increasingly salient for nations, organizations, and individuals since the end of World War II (Lauren 2003). Discussions of human rights now are common in formal education, including in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). A variety of indicators suggest that countries in Latin America have integrated human rights into…

Widening access to university-level education in Anglophone Africa has been moving away gradually from rhetorical optimism into the realm of political actualisation of collective intentions of community modernisation and growth. This is because university education is being deconstructed to embrace the welfare, self-actualisation and…

The final documents adopted at CONFINTEA V in 1997 set out a variety of issues and challenges for the future development of adult education worldwide. The forthcoming CONFINTEA VI conference, due in 2009, will mark another milestone and provide an opportunity for the stocktaking of success stories and unresolved challenges, and for the development…

A discussion of the considerations that professionals in educational media should make to have control of its direction in the future. (HB)

A transcript of an address to the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas, November, 1974. (HB)

A not inconsiderable contribution to "education" came into being with the onset of the newspaper and magazine cartoon. (Editor)

This paper describes some of the most original and effective forms of non-systematic educational activity in Cuba. (Author)

A description of "video observation," a technique developed at Hebrew University, Israel. (HB)

Author discussed the concept "Defectology" and put forward for each type of handicap the appropriate educational provision based on practices which appeared to have had most success in European socialist countries and described the psychological and social assumptions lying behind them. (Editor/RK)

Most countries have national ministries or offices of education. This article examines alternative mechanisms developed in two countries which had no national governmental authorities in education. (Author)

Special problems of education in rural America are highlighted and some new problem-solving approaches within the capabilities of rural schools and communication technology are explored. (Author/HB)

Article focused on Creative Helping, designed to facilitate the development of distinctive personality, to reduce anomie and to release creative energy. (Author/RK)

Discussed the objectives and the conditions which made possible a new school embodying radical innovations. The results of a observational study at an early stage of the school's development, undertaken by a group of students, are summarised here by two of them, both now teaching in Leicestershire Upper Schools. (Editor/RK)

Author presented his impressions based on his analysis of the editorial opinions of Dr. Thorne as they have appeared in the Journal of Clinical Psychology since its beginning in 1945. (Author/RK)