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Schooling and learning difficulties in China
SINCE the communist proclamation of the Peoples Republic in 1949 modern China has wrestled, quite successfully, with the problems of mass...
Contemporary Review, 06/22/07 by Garreth Byrne · More from publication -
The enduring world of proverbs
EVERY language has a store of short, succinct sayings that cast a light on life and human nature, and strike us by their common sense expressed in...
Contemporary Review, 11/01/05 by Garreth Byrne · More from publication -
Schools and innovation in Africa
AFRICAN parents make huge financial sacrifices in order to send their sons and daughters to school. In the straggling townships, children will work...
Contemporary Review, 04/01/05 by Garreth Byrne · More from publication -
The book famine in Africa: a former teacher observes
PRE-COLONIAL societies in Africa south of the Sahara had oral cultures. The folk memory and wisdom were transmitted by the elders to the younger...
Contemporary Review, 04/01/04 by Garreth Byrne · More from publication -
China: campus reactions to the NATO bombing in 1999
Editor's Note: China's attitude, especially any use of its veto in the UN Security Council, could be crucial in the current crisis about Iraq. It...
Contemporary Review, 02/01/03 by Garreth Byrne · More from publication -
Holy wells in Britain and Ireland
HOLY wells have featured for many centuries in the folk religion and social customs of Christianity in Britain and Ireland. Sometimes it has seemed...
Contemporary Review, 05/01/02 by Garreth Byrne · More from publication
