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VOLUME 17 LIST OF CONTENTS Number 1 Keith Watson Editorial Rosemary Preston and Linet Arthur Knowledge societies and planetary cultures: the chang- ing nature of consultancy in human development Elwyn Thomas Developing a culture-sensitive pedagogy: tackling a problem of melding ‘global culture’> within existing cultural contexts Ian Wallace 27 ‘Agricultural education at the crossroads: present dilem- mas and possible options for the future in sub-Saharan Africa Malcolm MacLachlan, 41 AIDS education for youth through active learning: a Moira Chimombo and school-based approach from Malawi Naomi Mpemba Aloysia Masoy and Pat Pridmore 51 Participatory learning and action to reduce women’s work- loads in East Africa Holger Daun 59 Teachers needs, culturally-significant teacher education and educational achievement in an African context — the case of Guinea-Bissau Costas Kanellopoulos and 73 Private education expenditure in a ‘free education’ coun- George Psacharopoulos try: the case of Greece Salahaldeen Al-Ali 83 An assessment of on-job training programmes in Kuwait Robert Oxtoby 91 _ Barriers to the provision of cost-effective technical educa- tion in Bangladesh Elisabeth Gfeller 101. ~=Why should I learn to read? Motivations for literacy acqui- sition in a rural education programme Carol Coombe 113. Unleashing the power of Africa’s teachers Number 2 Keith Watson 119 — Editorial Obert Paradzai Ndawi 121 Education for all by the year 2000 (EFA 2000) in some countries in Africa: can teacher education ensure the quantity, quality and relevance of that education? F. J. Nieuwenhuis 129 Can research into the development of education in post- colonial Africa shape education policies in South Africa? Mitchell Tracy 145 To transfer power or to transfer responsibility: educa- ~ tional decentralization in Venezuela M. Miti® and A. Herriot 163 Action to improve English, mathematics and science (AIEMS): a case study in Zambia—the start-up process Lucky Tshireletso 173 ‘They are the government’s children.’ School and community relations in a remote area dweller (Basarwa) settlement in Kweneng district, Botswana Richard Tabulawa 189 Pedagogical classroom practice and the social context: the case of Botswana Nelly P. Stromquist 205 Gender sensitive educational strategies and their imple- mentation Linda Chisholm, Candice Harrison 215 Youth policies, programmes and priorities in South and Shireen Motala Africa: 1990-1995 Book Reviews Alan Rogers 227 Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training, by Malcolm Tight Alan Rogers 227 International Encyclopedia of Adult Education and Training, 2nd edn, edited by Albert C. Tuijnman Teame Mebrahtu 228 The Political Dimension in Teacher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Policy Formation, Socialization and Society, edited-by M. B. Ginsburg and B. Lindsay Number 3 Keith Watson 231 Editorial Nahas Angula and 233 Promoting democratic processes in educational decision Suzanne Grant Lewis making: reflections from Namibia’s first 5 years Mwaya Wa Kitavi and 251 Problems facing beginning principals in developing Philip C. Van der Westhuizen countries: a study of beginning principals in Kenya Joshua A. Muskin 265 Becoming an independent entrepreneur in the informal sector of northern Céte d’Ivoire: what role can primary schooling play? Marianne Sprey, Barbara Dlamini 285 Teaching academic subjects in Swazi preschools and Jan van Hee Clinton Robinson and 295 A basic education programme in Africa: the people’s Elisabeth Gfeller own? Teffera Betru and Bassam Hamdar 303 Strengthening the linkages between research and exten- sion in agricultural higher education institutions in developing countries Xin Ma 313. A multiple regression analysis of mathematics achieve- ment in the Dominican Republic Geoffrey Tabbron and Jin Yang 323 The interaction between technical and vocational educa- tion and training (TVET) and economic development in advanced countries Ronald G. Sultana 335. Educational development in post-colonial Malta: chal- lenges for a Mediterranean micro-state Ph.D. Abstract Jin Yang 353 The interaction between the socialist market economy and technical and vocational education and training in the People’s Republic of China Book Reviews Keith Watson 355. The African Experience with Higher Education, by J. F. Ade Ajayi, Lameck K. H. Goma and G. Ampah Johnson Pam MacKenzie 356 ~— Literacy, Culture, and Development: Becoming Literate in Morocco, by Daniel A. Wagner Alan Rogers 357 Gender in Popular’ Education, Methods for Empowerment, edited by Shirley Walters and Linzi Manicom Number4 Keith Watson 359 Editorial Audrey Osler 361 Teachers’ biographies and educational development: a Kenyan case study Abdul Ghafour Al Heeti and 373 Vocational education and development: key issues, with Colin Brock special reference to the Arab world Shirley M. Sebakwane 391 The contradictions of scientific management as a mode of controlling teachers’ work in Black secondary schools: South Africa Maria Teresa Tatto 405 Reconstructing teacher education for disadvantaged communities Janet Hilsdon 417 Nominalisation in the classroom: issues of power and iden- tity Arjun S. Bedi 427 The importance of school quality as a determinant of earnings in a developing country: evidence from Hon- duras E. Mark Hanson 439 Educational reform and the transition from authoritarian to democratic governments: the cases of Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Spain 449 Stephen P. Heyneman The quality of education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Research Report Caroline Dyer and Archara Choksi 467 Literacy for migrants: an ethnography of literacy acqui- sition by Gujarati nomads Alan Rogers 471 Comment: Paulo Freire 1921—1997 Book Reviews Bryan J. Cowan 473 Innovative School Principals and Restructuring. Life History Portraits of Successful Managers of Change, by C. Dimmock and T. A. O’ Donoghue Mercy Tembon 473 Decentralization of Education: Community Financing, by Mark Bray Keith Watson 474 Qualitative Educational Research in Developing Countries. Current Perspectives, edited by Michael Crossley and Graham Vulliamy Paul Morris 475 Worlds Apart? A Review of International Surveys of Educational Achievement Involving England, by David Reynolds and Shaun Farrell Jason Tan Educational Dualism in Malaysia: Implications for Theory and Practice, by Rosnani Hashim Social Change and_ Educational Development: Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, edited by Gerard A. Postiglione and Lee Wing On Women, Education and Development in Asia: Cross- National Perspectives, edited by Grace C. L. Mak Binod Khadria Counting the Full Cost: Parental and Community Financing of Education in East Asia, by Mark Bray I S o h L A P O O Y A