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International Journal of Educational Development

Volume 15, Number 2

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Number of articles: 10

  1. Spanish American elementary education 1950–1992: Bureaucracy, growth and decentralization

    Carlos Newland

    The purpose of this article is to trace the evolution of elementary education in Spanish America during the last four decades, by way of a broad analysis that allows the principal problems to be... More

    pp. 103-114

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  2. Quality of teacher worklife and classroom practices in Botswana

    Patricia D. Perry, David W. Chapman & Conrad W. Snyder

    Grounded in affect theory (Eckblad, 1981), this study investigated (1) the extent that Botswana junior secondary teachers' quality of worklife was related to their willingness to undertake... More

    pp. 115-125

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  3. Views from the Botswana junior secondary classroom: Case study of a curriculum intervention

    Robert Prophet

    The impact of a curriculum implementation in English in the Botswana community junior secondary school system was examined using an ethnographic case study approach. The paper outlines some of the ... More

    pp. 127-140

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  4. Organizational climate and teachers' job satisfaction in a multi-cultural milieu: The case of the Bedouin Arab schools in Israel

    Ismael Abu-Saad & Vernon L. Hendrix

    This study examines the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational climate in the elementary schools of the Bedouin Arab community in southern Israel. The school represents a... More

    pp. 141-153

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  5. Teaching thinking skills in the social studies curriculum of Saudi Arabian secondary schools

    Salem Ali Al-Qahtani

    This paper examines how effectively thinking skills are being taught in the social studies component in Saudi Arabian secondary schools. Two methods of data collection were employed: (1) classroom ... More

    pp. 155-163

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  6. Friendship patterns in multi-racial schools: With special reference to a minority community in Malaysia

    R. Santhiram

    Malaysia follows a multi-lingual media of instruction at the primary level and a single medium of instruction at the secondary level. This study examines the friendship patterns in three multi... More

    pp. 165-173

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  7. Education and agricultural development in the Caribbean: The case of Barbados

    Anthony D. Griffith

    This paper examines the state of agricultural education in Barbados against the background of the role of education in development. A number of programmes provide education and training in... More

    pp. 175-191

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  8. Drop-out from primary schools in tribal India: A case study of the Ho in Parampancho, West Singhbhum

    Avinash Kumar Singh

    pp. 193-194

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  9. An economic assessment of school management-types in urban India: A case study of Uttar Pradesh

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

    p. 195

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  10. Tertiary education in St. Lucia: Implications for small island states

    Calliopa Pearlette Louisy

    p. 196

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