Textbooks in the Developing World  Economic and Educational Choices. EDI Seminar Series / 
Joseph P. Farrell, Ed. and Stephen P. Heyneman, Ed. 
 - [Washington, D.C.] :  Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse,  1989. 
 - 228 p. 
<br/><br/> Availability: Publications Sales Unit, The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433.  ERIC Note: Edited selection of background papers presented at a seminar of the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank (Washington, DC, April 9-25, 1986). 
<br/><br/> This book is a collection of 16 papers that focus on what has been learned in two decades of developing and implementing large-scale national textbook programs. The seminar was designed to help participants make sound policy decisions about their own national textbook programs and to facilitate discourse among a wider audience of parties working to improve the quality of education in developing nations. Organized into four parts, the part headings include: (1) The Design and Implementation of Textbook Programs: An Overview; (2) Policy Issues in Textbook Program Development; (3) Provision of Textbooks: Developed Systems and Infant Industries; and (4) The Future: Will New Electronic Media Make the Textbook Obsolete? Many figures and tables are included and several of papers contain a list of references or a bibliography. (DB) 
<br/><br/><br/>Microfiche. <br/>[Washington D.C.]: <br/>ERIC Clearinghouse <br/>microfiches : positive. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821312193 0821312197 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comparative Education.<br/>Cross Cultural Studies.<br/>Developing Nations.<br/>Economic Development.<br/>Educational Development.<br/>Educational Policy.<br/>Educational Research.<br/>Foreign Countries.<br/>International Education.<br/>International Educational Exchange.<br/>Textbooks.<br/>World Affairs.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>379.156  / WOT 1989