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Textbooks in the developing world : economic and educational choices

Title
Textbooks in the developing world : economic and educational choices / editors, Joseph P. Farrell, Stephen P. Heyneman.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Farrell, Joseph P.
  • Heyneman, Stephen P.
  • Economic Development Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Description
xi, 219 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Series Statement
EDI seminar series
Uniform Title
EDI seminar series
Subject
  • Textbooks > Developing countries > Congresses
  • Textbooks > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses
  • Textbooks
  • Kongress
  • Schulbuch
  • Kongreß
  • Developing countries
  • Entwicklungsländer
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Washington (DC, 1986)
Note
  • Based upon a seminar held at the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., April 9-25, 1986.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Provision of textbooks by the World Bank / Barbara Searle (19 p.). -- Design of texbook projects / Anthony Read (16 p.). -- Using textbooks to improve the quality of education / Adriaan M Verspoor (7 p.). -- And shall the Twain meet? : public and private textbook publishing in the developing world / Savaranan Gopinathan (9 p.). -- Textbook development in the United States : how good ideas become bad textbooks / Harriet Tyson-Bernstein (16 p.). -- Copyright in the developing world / Philip G Altbach (14 p.). -- Raw material : paper / Paul Eastman (11 p.). -- Publishing for schools in the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States / Peter H Neumann (15 p.). -- Indian textbook industry / Narendra Kumar (7 p.). -- Mexico's free textbook program / Peter H Neumann (4 p.). -- Philippines : a textbook case / Alfonso Guzman (32 p.). -- Textbook project in Lesotho / Albert Aimé (12 p.). -- Regional development of textbooks : the English-speaking Caribeean / Pat E Malone (10 p.). -- Will textbooks be replaced by new information technologies? / L.R Fernig (9 p.). -- Computers in the classroom / Paul Olson (9 p.).
ISBN
  • 0821312197
  • 9780821312193
LCCN
  • 89009144
  • GEIwh000022723
  • ZBWT00319862
OCLC
  • ocm19740050
  • 19740050
  • SCSB-9105510
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library