Whether on the basis of a philosophy of education, or simple economic necessity, many handicapped students in developing countries have been placed in regular education classrooms. Usually the number of non-handicapped students in these classrooms is quite large. Under these conditions, it is...

It is clear that initially European and then American influence have played significant roles in the establishment of psychology departments and in the conceptualisation of research interests in Turkey. The development of applied areas, organisation of profes sional associations, publications...

The continuous appraisal or evaluation of adult education programmes by external agencies has been an integral part of the design of this programme since the time the Ministry of Education stepped up adult education in the late seventies. Several faculty members of the Indian Institute of...

An attempt was made to study the relationships between moral development and perspective taking abilities of children at three age levels (i.e., 5-6 years, 8-9 years and 11-12 years). The results indicated that both moral reasoning and perspective taking improved with age. Gender differences...

Despite the urgency felt about the need for eradicating illiteracy, both in developing and industrialised nations, little effort has been made towards understanding the nature and constraints of access faced by the minorities throughout the world; or of the speafic challenges that they face in...

A number of studies comparing the cognitive, linguistic and academic performance and the sociolinguistic integration of bilingual and monolingual Kond tribals have been discussed to show that Kui-Oriya bilingualism, based on the maintenance of the indigenous Kui language, has positive...

The purpose of this study was to compare the re-entering second generation of Turkish migrants and their "resident" peers in terms of academic and psychological adjust ment. Academic adjustment was defined as receiving passing grades on courses chosen for this study (social studies, science,...

The paper identifies several characteristics of the socio-cultural environment and anternal work culture of organisations in developing countries, and discusses the reasons why such characteristics have facilitating or constraining effects on the installation and implementation of the...

This paper reports findings on the use and applicability of the method of teaching advocated by Paulo Freire. It underscores the proposition that a method of teaching cannot be neutral; thus teaching methods are used with the aim of facilitating achieve ment of specifically desired objectives....

This is a comparative study of the examination stress assessed either as test anxiety or in terms of its worry and emotionality components in 7,679 high school students (males and females) from four Asian (Indian, Jordanian, Chinese and Korean) and five Euro-American (Hungarian, Turkish, Indian,...