(1983). Oil and Gas. Geotimes, v28 n2 p30-32 Feb. Highlights worldwide oil and gas developments during 1982, focusing on production, drilling, and other activities/projects in specific countries and regional areas. Indicates that the most political actions (other than the U.S. decision not to protest further the Siberian pipeline project) were the continued Afghanistan and Iraq-Iran wars. (Author/JN)…
(1972). Development of Education in Afghanistan During the Period 1960-1970. Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Asia, 6, 2, 1-10, Mar 72. …
(2006). Afghan Education Shows Progress Amid the Rubble. Education Week, v25 n32 p10 Apr. Afghanistan suffered another blow to its campaign to rebuild its ravaged school system last week when a rocket exploded on the grounds of a school in Asadabad, killing six children. The spate of recent attacks on schools, teachers, and students has not threatened plans to open up educational opportunities for all children, especially girls, throughout the Southern Asian nation observers say. U.S. agencies, private donors, and international aid organizations have reported marked headway in building new schools, recruiting and training centers, and providing basic instructional materials, and demand for education throughout much of the country has exceeded expectations….
(2011). On the Developmental Journey: An Ethnographic Study of Teacher Identity Development of NESTs and NNESTs in a US MATESOL Program. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the discursive process of the negotiation and construction of teacher identity in a US-based Master of Arts for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (MATESOL) program. This study explores how both native-English-speaking (NES) and non-native-English-speaking (NNES) student teachers' identities as English language teaching (ELT) professionals are shaped by professional discourses in the program, and how their (non)native status influences this enculturation process and their teaching practices. While teacher identity has been an emerging subject in research on language instruction over the last decade, the NNEST/NEST dichotomy remains the most prevalent way of theorizing teacher identity in TESOL (Menard-Warwick, 2008), and the process of the search for and construction of a professional teacher identity, especially within MATESOL programs, is understudied in the field of TESOL and Applied Linguistics. This… [Direct]
(2006). From Swift to Swiss: Tactical Decision Games and Their Place in Military Education and Performance Improvement. Performance Improvement, v45 n2 p30-39 Feb. In today's arena of military transformation, the newest bandwagon everyone is jumping on is \reform military education.\ This comes about in light of the complex problems faced by Army leaders in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Army's education and training doctrine was developed to deal with second-generation or industrial war. The existing system did all right to prepare Army leaders, especially its junior officers, to adapt to the unexpected demands of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nevertheless, the Army leader development system has to do better. As a result, think tanks and military task forces are proposing all kinds of changes to military education, at the levels of joint education, midlevel officer career courses, and senior-level war colleges. This article focuses on Tactical Decision Game (TDG), a tool which provides an efficient and effective way to teach intuitive decision making–or, as the Army calls it, rapid decision making–in aspiring leaders. It discusses how… [Direct]
(1972). English Around the World, Number 6. This newsletter discusses the teaching and role of English around the world. Articles also cover English-language media in a given country, and the opportunity and need for understanding and speaking English in that country. This particular issue contains items on English-language education and use in Belgium, Poland, Afghanistan, Hungary, Singapore, Venezuela, and Francophone Africa. (VM)… [PDF]
(2003). The Process of Drama through a Novel. Stage of the Art, v15 n3 p25-27 Spr. Notes that New York University's Steinhardt School of Education offers a program in educational theater with noted practitioners in the field. Provides a narrative description of one process drama session conducted by Warwick Dobson with a group of ninth graders. Explains that this session focused on the novel \The Breadwinner,\ which is set in Afghanistan. (PM)…
(2004). The Role of Educators in the 21st Century. Childhood Education, v81 n1 p32-D Fall. This brief article reports on selective presentations from the January, 2004, conference, "Poverty, Partnerships and Peace: The Role of Educators in the 21st Century," sponsored by the Committee on Teaching about the United Nations. Topics covered include the importance of teaching girls in Afghanistan and the connection between poverty reduction and conflict resolution….
(2006). Assessing the Impact of a Multi-Agency Project on Afghan Basic Education. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, Apr 7-11, 2006). This study investigates the impact of activities done in the basic education sub-sector by a consortium of four non-government organizations in four provinces in Afghanistan from January 2004 to June 2005. The evaluation uses the project objectives and components as the evaluation framework, and data collected through survey questionnaires, structured interviews and classroom observations. Results indicate that the local communities were actively involved in basic education planning and management via village education committees; where new schools were built, almost all communities contributed labor and/or collected money to pay for the land; most teachers and principals claimed that attending the teacher training workshops enabled them to become more "professional" in teaching; there was a shared concern over the sustainability of the capacity building activities in project management, monitoring and impact assessment. Results show that the ABEC project has undertaken the… [PDF]
(2002). CNN Newsroom Classroom Guides, March 2002. These classroom guides, designed to accompany the daily CNN (Cable News Network) Newsroom broadcasts for the month of March 2002, provide program rundowns, suggestions for class activities and discussion, student handouts, and a list of related news terms. Lead stories include: the U.S. expands the War on Terrorism into the Republic of Georgia and the Philippines (March 1); American military action in Afghanistan intensifies and the U.S. enhances its humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Anaconda, Egypt's President Mubarak seeks to revive peace talks in the Middle East, Zimbabwe's president changes his country's election rules, and report on Operation Anaconda (March 4-8); Operation Anaconda continues 6 months after the attacks of September 11, President Bush commemorates 6 months since the attacks of September 11, Vice President Cheney begins his tour of the Middle East, the U.N. Security Council votes to endorse a Palestinian state, and…
(1982). An Examination of Prepropaganda and Political Change in Afghanistan during a National Crisis–September, 1979-January, 1980. Jacques Ellul defined "prepropaganda" as the subtle and sophisticated use of news services to improve an authoritarian government's public image. Because its value is directly related to its being used sparingly, he predicted that prepropaganda would increase when an authoritarian government felt threatened and decrease when it once more felt secure. The sovereignty threatening events in Afghanistan from September 1979 until January 1980 provided an opportunity to test Ellul's theory. According to the theory, the frequency and the bias of the prepropaganda directed at Hafizullah Amin, Afghanistan's ruler, by Bakhtar, the official news service, should have changed according to the vicissitudes of the situation, being favorable during the planning of the Soviet Union's invasion and unfavorable after that invasion took place. Content analysis of the favorable and unfavorable adjectives used to describe Amin in articles supplied by Bakhtar for editions of the "Kabul…
(1976). Social Sciences in Asia II: Afghanistan, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Nepal. Reports and Papers in the Social Sciences, No. 33. The document focuses on social science teaching and research in Afghanistan, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Nepal. One chapter is devoted to each of the five nations. The first chapter suggests that social science has not played a major role in the socioeconomic development of Afghanistan because most Afghans favor traditional ways of thinking. The chapter on Indonesia traces social science research from the eighth century through establishment of social science faculties by Dutch colonizers and to modern times–characterized by computer research and individualized curriculum for university students. The chapter on Japan stresses rapidly expanding social science research activities to meet the needs of increasing numbers of students and others who demand social science information particularly in areas of sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and interdisciplinary studies. The chapter on Korea identifies law, economics, and political science as the most popular fields of social…
(1991). South Asia: A Guide to Reference Sources. This annotated bibliography of library materials on South Asia covers Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The materials are organized into three sections: (1) references sources; (2) regional bibliography; and (3) subject bibliography. While the guide is specific to materials housed in a particular library, it can be useful to persons interested in conducting research on South Asia in general. (DB)…
(1988). Classroom Teacher's Idea Notebook. Social Education, v52 n7 p512-16,519 Nov-Dec. Offers activities for high school and middle school classrooms. First activity deals with war crimes by projecting fictitious Soviet fighting in Afghanistan into the story of William Calley in Vietnam. Second activity uses the Underground Railroad during the U.S. Civil War in an interdisciplinary approach. Third activity is a self-discovery project which helps students understand themselves and society. (KO)…
(1990). UN Peacekeepers: Soldiers with a Difference. Headline Series No. 292. United Nations (UN) peacekeepers, symbolic neutral military units whose presence has made a difference in areas as diverse as Afghanistan, Central America, and Namibia, are in a unique position to affect the course of international peace. With recent UN successes negotiating resolutions in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war, and with radically improved relations between Washington and Moscow, there is a new sense of optimism about the United Nations. In fact, international support for UN peacekeeping, symbolized by the Nobel Peace Prize of 1988, appears to be at an all-time high. However, unless solutions are found to three unresolved peacekeeping problems–financing, management, and peacemaking–the current optimism about the UN could sour. The United States is urged to take advantage of this unique chance to improve the peace process by acting quickly to address these problems. The book includes a map and a chronology of current peacekeeping operations, excerpts from the UN… [PDF]