Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth

Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth

I illustrate the variety of approaches to development issues microeconomists employ, focusing on studies that illuminate and quantify the major mechanisms posited by growth theorists who highlight the role of education in fostering growth. I begin with a basic issue: what are the returns to schooling? I discuss microeconomic studies that estimate schooling returns using alternative approaches t...

Microeconomic Approaches to ‘Growth’ and ‘Poverty’: A Sociological Comment

Teaching approaches to Computer Assisted Language Learning

Computers have been used for language teaching ever since the 1960's.Learning a second language is a challenging endeavor, and, for decades now, proponents of computer assisted language learning (CALL) have declared that help is on the horison. We investigate the suitability of deploying speech technology in computer based systems that can be used to teach foreign language skills. In this case,...

Approaches to sustainable development of arid regions

Interest in arid ecosystems as a source of food supply for rapidly increasing population of the world, on the one hand, and the problems pertaining to the climatic characteristics, water shortages and soil sensitivity for the inhabitants in such areas, on the other have prompted efforts at both national and international levels to develop a better understanding of these problems as well as to f...

Transforming Schooling through Technology: Twenty-First-Century Approaches to Participatory Learning

Th e fi ft y years since the 100th anniversary of John Dewey’s birth have marked the emergence of new technologies that aff ord a wealth of previously unknown approaches to learning, making it not only possible but practicable for Dewey’s educational vision of participatory learning to be realized on a mass scale. Th is chapter discusses these possibilities and their implications for learning i...