scholarly journals Challenges And Prospects Of Staff Development Programmes In Nigerias Secondary School System: An Overview

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Adetunji Asaya
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Educational System ◽  
School System ◽  
Third World ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
The Third ◽  
Efficient Performance ◽  
The Third World

The vices rampant now among students in Nigeria secondary schools, such as acts of indiscipline, stealing, cheating, truancy, rioting, cultism, and raping, together with population explosion, call for special skills on the part of the school administrators to be able to cope with these challenges. Consequently, this paper examines the uniqueness of the principals position to make or mar the image of the educational system and the need for these principals to be well equipped to meet these challenges in the educational system of the third world, with particular reference to Nigeria. This is so because it is now clear that the pre-service skills acquired by present school administrators, through formal education, may not be adequate to meet with these sustainable challenges. Recommendations on probable improvement of these staff development programmes for effective and efficient performance of these principals on their jobs concluded this paper.

Education, Technology and Development in the Third World Countries

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 283-290
Author(s):  
Sid N. Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Third World ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

In the light of Jacques Ellul's ideas on technology and Ivan Illich's views on education, what follows is a discussion of the present attempt of Botswana (amidst the Southern African Countries) to expand and modernize its educational system through the use of new technology to educate its people. The problems encountered in adopting technology are used as cautions for the Third World countries attracted to new technology for educating the vast majority. Illich's proposal for replacing the formal schools with the tools of conviviality for the learners is considered useful and relevant.

Formal Education Systems and Poverty-Focused Planning

1977 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Colclough
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
National Income ◽  
Average Income ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Development Decade ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
The Third World

Over the first U.N. development decade the Third World has made rather faster progress, as measured by the growth in national incomes, than had been expected. Nevertheless, though the average income per capita has risen by about 50 per cent since 1960 (with total income having almost doubled), these increases have been very unequally distributed both between and within countries. This has led to the conclusion, now widely held, that growth-oriented development strataegies are alone unlidely to solve the problem of poverty. Similarly, there has been a move away from the confidence placed upon the growth of national income per capita as an effective index of social welfare. There has therefore been a quickening interest, particularly on the part of multilateral and bilataeral donor agencies – notably the World Bank, I.L.O., O.D.M., and S.I.D.A. – in promoting changes in domestic policies within the Third World which would focus more upon increasing the welfare of the poorest groups.

Power for development. Electricity in the Third World

IEE Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Mohan Munasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World
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