"The proceedings of a workshop organized by the Harold Macmillan Trust in conjunction with the Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE). The framework for discussions included questioning whether developing countries have succeeded in providing school systems with the education
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al printed materials essential for supporting the curriculum. Discusses the constraints which impede progress in this area, what measures should be taken to overcome these constraints, and how to use existing educational materials more effectively in the classroom." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 225)
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"A collection of 16 papers that focus on what has been learned in two decades of developing and implementing large-scale national textbook programmes, and the World Bank’s role in assisting textbook development. Organized into four parts it covers (1) The Design and Implementation of Textbook Prog
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rams: 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? Includes a case study on Lesotho." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 222)
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"Through the use of meta-research techniques, this study examines how researchers in 224 studies examined the role of the media (television, radio, newspapers and magazines) in developing countries as agents of behavioral, attitude and knowledge changes of audience members from 1958, which marks the
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date of publication of Daniel Lerner's important work, The Passing of Traditional Society, to 1986. To make the meta-research more manageable, the focus was on English-language, U.S., Canadian or European based research, since it is the most widely available and comprehensive in volume. Because this study attempted to identify and collect all relevant studies, the meta-research approximates a population of studies, rather than a sample." (Page 129)
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