Distance Education in Rural Areas.

Autor/in	Zucker, Henry
Titel	Distance Education in Rural Areas.
Quelle	(1986), (46 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Access to Education; Adult Education; Audiotape Cassettes; Communications Satellites; Developing Nations; Distance Education; Educational Technology; Libraries; Nontraditional Education; Political Influences; Program Descriptions; Radio; Rural Areas; Socioeconomic Influences; Telephone Instruction; Videodisks; Videotex + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Adult; Adults; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Unterrichtsmedien; Library; Bibliothek; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Sozioökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	This discussion of social and political aspects, advantages and disadvantages of distance education programs includes descriptions and examples of delivery technologies and programs in developing and developed countries. Among the social aspects considered are distance education's potential to provide a second chance to people who are trapped by geographic isolation, poor school performance, economic disadvantagement, old age, discrimination, and health problems. Political aspects of distance education include ability to reach the majority who are excluded from education in developing countries and to reverse irrelevant, discriminating, colonial models of education. Critics contend that distance education tends to isolate students and defuse student power traditional in on-campus settings, preserve apartheid in South Africa, foster cultural imperialism, undercut local autonomy and individual instructor control, reduce diversity and pluralism in favor of centralized production and homogenization, become a propaganda tool, and make students into passive recipients of overly structured packets of knowledge. Issues in the development of distance education include equal access via government subsidization/direction versus market-driven development, communication systems inadequacies, teaching strategies appropriate to technologically-dependent learning, and enhanced student-teacher interaction. Delivery technologies described are satellites, videotex, teletext, audiocassettes, telephone, radio, television, videocassette/videodisc, and libraries. (LFL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01