Textbooks in the developing world : economic and educational choices /

This volume discusses the major options decision makers face when dealing with teacher career and remuneration policies. Most of the papers were prepared for a seminar on teacher costs and effectiveness organized by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank. Participants holding sen...

• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial. Instituto de Desarrollo Económico
• Other Authors: Farrell, Joseph P. (ed.), Heyneman, Stephen P. (ed.)
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank. Economic Development Institute, 1989
• Series: EDI seminar series
• Subjects: LIBROS DE TEXTO; PAISES EN DESARROLLO; TERCER MUNDO

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The provision of textbooks and implementation of textbook programs, an overview
• 3. The design of textbook projects
• 4. Using textbooks to improve the quality of education
• 5. Public and private textbook publishing in the developing world
• 6. Textbook development in the United States
• 7. Copyright
• 8. The raw material: paper
• 9. Publishing for schools in the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States
• 10. The Indian textbook industry
• 11. Mexico's free textbook program
• 12. The Philippines
• 13. textbook project in Lesotho
• 14. Regional development of textbooks
• 15. Will textbooks be replaced by new information technologies?
• 16. Computers in the cclassroom.