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. 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. Participatory video with farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the book is therefore about paradigms in the domain of development studies, and about the ways that fashions may gloss over substance. Confronting a major question at the outset, Rogers ask why the terminology of non-formal education, which was so much in vogue in the 1970s and 1980s, practically disappeared from the mainstream discourse in the 1990s and initial years of the present century.
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It is a truly comparative work, which fits admirably into the series Much of the thrust of Rogers' work is an analysis not only of the significance of non-formal education but also of the reasons for changing fashions in the development community. It is based on the one hand on an exhaustive review of the literature, and on the other hand on extensive practical experience in all parts of the world. The book is a masterly account, which will be seen as a milestone in the literature. Alan Rogers is a distinguished figure in the field of non-formal education, and brings to this volume more than three decades of experience. The Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Hong Kong is proud and privileged to present this book in its series CERC Studies in Comparative Education. Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media.Serpell R (1999): Local Accountability to Rural Communities: a challenge for educational planning in Africa, in Leach F & Little A (eds.) . Senegal nd (after 1992): Final Evaluation Report, NFE for Development, unpublished paper.