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KATHMANDU, Nepal -- What does the word "climate" mean? What are climate change and global warming? How do these things affect our lives,...
This booklet captures the voices and concerns of Kenyan pastoralists about education. It was produced as part of a broader action research programme that is guiding the Government of Kenya’s strategy for nomadic education. The purpose of the booklet is to share the views of pastoralists with education policy-makers and practitioners, particularly those in Kenya who are in a position...
Sixteen years ago, when an old adage that schools in Nepal are as scarce as snakes in Ireland was often taken as literal truth, Bernard Pignede made the discovery that in relatively isolated Dansing-Mohoriya village, some 80% of the Gurung men from 19 to 80 were literate. Eight percent of the women also could read and write. The national census of 1954 had shown the corresponding figures for...
Research of rote learning and related topics has been extensive, but is usually limited specific to the Nepalese application of the technique. Therefore this article attempts to cite studies yielding information transferable to the Nepalese situation, and restrict the scope of concern to studies of educational psychology, pragmatic philosophy and analytic philosophy.
When a citizen of a...
This paper is a preliminary attempt at describing the competence in the learning of Nepali at the primary school level, comparing the competence of those who speak Nepali as a first language (NL1) with that of those who speak Nepali as a second language (NL2).
This article analyses the ways that errors in learning languages can be corrected and the attitude towards errors, from a linguistic and non-linguistic approach. The author then examines an approach that is appropriate in the Nepalese context, especially where learners acquire English as a foreign language, where an error based analysis is useful.
This study surveys the problems of the language medium in the education system of Nepal. The discussion presented here is a shorter version of a sociolinguistic study of the Nepal language as the medium of higher education in Nepal. This study is based on a survey the author carried out with the assistance of two researchers in 1979. The survey covered three multipurpose campuses located in...
Defining the concept of a text, the author examines this and analyses the various linguistic signals that go to the making of a text in English. This does not mean grammar or discourse structure, though we are using various grammatical units as the linguistic signals that go to the making of a text.
Vital information on rural youths in Nepal, such as their educational aspirations and expectations is still wanting. In 1978-79 the enrollment of children was 65.3, 18.6 and 13.7 percent at primary, lower secondary and secondary levels respectively. This low and decreasing enrollment highlights the increasing drop-out ratio of youths in the country.
This drop-out and no-schooling...
This two-week e-conference organised by ICIMOD and the Mountain Forum was conducted in two parts. In the first week the focus was on establishing how important socio-cultural settings are. The second session, under the theme of 'Bridging Gaps', turned more to questions of practice. The main interest was in approaches and tools appropriate in contexts where persons of otherwise differing...
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