SpringerBriefs in Education Open and Distance Non-formal Education in Developing Countries - Colin Latchem Kartoniert (TB)

This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in open and distance non-formal education in developing countries for over more than 20 years. It includes many instructive and inspiring examples of how international agencies such as UNESCO FAO WHO UNICEF USAID and the Commonwealth of Learning and national providers are using radio TV online and mobile learning telecentres and other means to achieve the Education for All Millennium Development and Sustainable Development Goals. It describes the educational needs of the world's most disadvantaged vulnerable and least formal ly educated children youth and adult populations including the disabled refugees and prisoners. It also reports on the successes outcomes constraints and shortcomings of using open and distance methods and technology to deliver literacy and numeracy programmes equivalency 'second chance' or alternative schooling life skills and rural community development programmes and income generation and vocational training outside the framework of the formal education system. It concludes with suggestions for the extension and improvement of such lifelong learning. Designed to encourage further research and development in these capacity-building practices outside the established formal system this is a must-read for all policy-makers managers educators students and researchers interested in non-formal education for individuals families and communities in the developing world.