The Education of Nomadic Peoples

The Education of Nomadic Peoples

Author: Caroline Dyer

Publisher: ITESO

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781845450366

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This volume provides a series of international case studies, prefaced by a comprehensive literature review and concluding with an end note drawing together the themes and key issues relating to educational services for nomadic groups around the world. [Book jacket].


The Education of Nomadic Peoples in East Africa

The Education of Nomadic Peoples in East Africa

Author: Roy A. Carr-Hill

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Six per cent of the Africans still lead a nomadic lifestyle. Marginalized by their highly mobile and harsh way of life, nomadic communities pose a particular challenge for education. This book draws on a wide range of literature bringing together the disparate views and experiences in providing education for nomadic communities. It provides a comprehensive insight into the challenges, as well as the constraints and opportunities in developing the right programs.--Publisher's description.


Basic Education at a Distance

Basic Education at a Distance

Author: Jo Bradley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1134558015

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Open and distance learning has been used in many ways in the recent past to provide both primary education and adult education. The Commonwealth of Learning works with governments, schools and universities with the aim of strengthening the capacities of Commonwealth member countries in developing human resources required for their economic and social development. Many existing policy documents link distance education with new information and communication technologies, portraying them as a promising universal access and exponential growth of learning. This book answers the key questions to these issues and assesses the impact and effect of the experience of basic education at a distance all over the world and in a wide variety of forms. This is the first major overview of this topic for twenty years.


Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education

Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education

Author: Patrick Alan Danaher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-04-10

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1135893217

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Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education presents international accounts of approaches to educating mobile communities such as circus and fairground people, herders, hunters, Roma and Travellers. The chapters focus on three key dimensions of educational change: the client group moving from school to school; those schools having their demographics changed and seeking to change the mobile learners; and these learners contributing to fundamental change to the nature of schooling. The book brings together decades of research into the challenges and opportunities presented by mobile learners interacting with educational systems predicated on fixed residence. It identifies several obstacles to those learners receiving an equitable education, including negative stereotypes and centuries-old prejudice. Yet the book also explores a number of educational innovations that bring mobility and schooling together, ranging from specialised literacy programs and distance and online education to mobile schools and specially trained teachers. These innovations allow us to think differently about how education can and should be, for mobile and non-mobile learners alike.


The Education of Nomadic Peoples

The Education of Nomadic Peoples

Author: Caroline Dyer

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1789203937

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Educational provision for nomadic peoples is a highly complex, as well as controversial and emotive, issue. For centuries, nomadic peoples educated their children by passing on from generation to generation the socio-cultural and economic knowledge required to pursue their traditional occupations. But over the last few decades, nomadic peoples have had to contend with rapid changes to their ways of life, often as a consequence of global patterns of development that are highly unsympathetic to spatially mobile groups. The need to provide modern education for nomadic groups is evident and urgent to all those concerned with achieving Education For All; yet how they can be included is highly controversial. This volume provides a series of international case studies, prefaced by a comprehensive literature review and concluding with an end note drawing themes together, that sets out key issues in relation to educational services for nomadic groups around the world.