Textbooks in the Developing World Economic and Educational Choices. EDI Seminar Series / Joseph P. Farrell, Ed. and Stephen P. Heyneman, Ed.
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TextPublication details: [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1989. Description: 228 pISBN: 9780821312193; 0821312197Subject(s): Comparative Education | Cross Cultural Studies | Developing Nations | Economic Development | Educational Development | Educational Policy | Educational Research | Foreign Countries | International Education | International Educational Exchange | Textbooks | World AffairsDDC classification: 379.156 Summary: 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)
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Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Library | 379.156 WOT 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Amirul | 69589 |
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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). ericd
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)
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