Lifelong Learning for Global Development: Toward a Humane Quality of Life
Edited by: Estela C. Matriano
Contents
Editorial preface ……………………………………………………………. 1
Part I. Opening Address
Development and the Quality of Life: Toward 1980 ……………………………………….. 9
Estela C. Matriano
Keynote Address
Education for the Future: Education for Development …………………………………….. 16
Onofre D. Corpuz
Part 2. Plenary Presentations: Culture, Values and Community Development
Education for Employment: A Case Study of Curricular Changes
At the Secondary Level in Jamaica, W. I. ………………………………………………. 19
Marion E. Abbott
Formal Education: A Means of Improving Nomadic Fulani Life Style …………………………. 24
Chimah Ezeomah
Primary Health Care in Southern Sudan: The Role of a Non-Governmental Organization …………. 29
Michael S. Gerber
Children’s Needs and Community Development Social and Educational Responses ……………….. 40
Frances Elsie O’Gorman
The Alice Miel Lecture: Development Education
As a Challenge to WCCI ………………………………………………………………. 52
Wilfred Wees
Part 3. Abstracts of Papers: Education and Global Development
Education and Development: Strategy for Developing Societies …………………………….. 58
M.A. Adewole
Higher Education in Saudi Arabia: Focus on the Development Of King Faisal University ……….. 60
H. E. Muhhammed S. Al-Kahtani
Goldilocks Among the Mico-Chips: The Education Role of Imaginative Literature in Creating Human
Standard for Development …………………………………………………………….. 62
Rex Andrews
Education and West African Economic Community ………………………………………….. 64
Moses K. Antwi
Humanistic Education: What it Means …………………………………………………… 65
Jim Breadmore
Educational Responses to the Problems and Obstacles of Integrating Women into Development …… 67
Mary Burrow
Health and Family Life Education in India ……………………………………………… 68
Gulab Chaurasia
The Cultural Context of Human Interactions in the World Community ………………………… 69
E. C. Condon
Women and Career Choice in Australia and India …………………………………………. 70
Jan K. Currie
Review of Literature Related to the Objectives to Equal
Educational Opportunity Faced by Indian Women at the Secondary Level of Education ………….. 71
Chhaya Dey
De-Colonizing Education- A Priority for Humane Development ………………………………. 72
Djibril Diallo and Betty Reardon
Innovation and International Education ………………………………………………… 73
Edward Edmonds
Adult Education in Rural Areas of Latin America ………………………………………… 74
Bernardo Vallejo
Epistemological Issues and Development Education:
The Role of Values in Behavioral and Social Inquiry …………………………………….. 75
Hendrik D. Gideonse
Education for the Improvement of the Quality of Life: Caribbean Experience ………………… 76
Edrick Gift
Cultural Pluralism in a Democracy : An Analysis and a Proposal for Education ………………. 77
Joseph B. Gitter
Iems in Perspective: An Agency of Lifelong Education
Committed to the Development of Lesotho, Africa ………………………………………… 78
Daisy A. Graham
New Learning for Industrialized Nation: Curriculum for Class Passengers ………………….. 79
Anthony Joseph Hepworth
Life Long Education and Human Understanding ……………………………………………. 80
M. L. van Herreweghe
Education for Justice as a Base for Social Development ………………………………….. 81
Renato J. Hevia
Some Ideas for Development Education at Primary School Level, 5-11 Years ………………….. 82
Judity Ann Holland
Multilingualism and Educational Development (The fate of the child in a developing country) …. 84
Sybil James
Women in Development ………………………………………………………………… 85
Velma Jardine
The Role of Educational Technology as a Tool for Facilitating
Cooperation among Industrialized Nations ………………………………………………. 86
Harry Johnson
Implications of Learning Styles for Lifelong Learning …………………………………… 87
James W. Keefe
Effect of Nutrition on Learning of Young Children in India ………………………………. 89
Geeta Hall
A Competency-Based Program for Cooperating Teachers in
Modeling Behavior Designed to Assist Pupils in Developing,
Helping and Caring Relationships in Israel ……………………………………………. 90
Rachel Laor
Developing a Model for Studying Community Development and Human Potential …………………. 91
Virginia Macagnoni
Education and Peace in the Middle East ………………………………………………… 92
Sami Khall Mar’l
Education for Global Development: The Institute for Higher
Education as a Regional Catalyst ……………………………………………………… 93
Robert McCaig
Life-Long Learning for Global Development: Implications of Selected Research ………………. 94
Charles C. Matthews
Black Studies: Some Aspects of Education for Global Development In Industrialized Countries …. 96
Francois Nkongola Muyumba
Curriculum Development for Life-Long Learning and Humane Quality of Life ………………….. 97
M. Olu Odusina
Development of an International Handbook on Peace: Education in Early Childhood ……………. 98
Frithjof Oertel
Educating Women for Development ………………………………………………………. 99
Evelina Orteza Miranda
Early Childhood Education ……………………………………………………………. 100
Frances Elsie O’Gorman
What Next: After the International Year of the Child ……………………………………. 101
Hannah Polowy
Community-Based Teacher Training in Northern Manitoba, Canada ……………………………. 102
Deo H. Poonwasie
The Disadvantaged Learner in an Advantaged Society ……………………………………… 104
Program for Children with Handicapping Conditions:
Issues and Approaches The SEEK Program Upgrading the
Educational Competence of Young and Older Adults
Anita Rich
Program Development Unit Division of Special Education
New York City Board of Education
Helen Sherman
Nutrition and Learning: The World’s Deprived Children …………………………………… 106
Elizabeth Stimson and Betty Reardon
Integrated System of Rural Education: The Pernambuco Experiment ………………………….. 107
Jorge Wethein
Factors Related to Performance in Reading English as a Second Language ……………………. 108
David Williams
Part 4. Conference Report and Recommendations ……….. 109
Appendix A List of Participants ………………………………………………………. 116
Appendix B Certificate of Attendance –
Youngest WCCI Participant (6 months old) ………………………………………………. 124