Planning and practice: factors impacting on the development of initial education in Nepal, with special reference to English language teaching, 1950-1995

This thesis sets out to examine the planning and practice of the goals for the development of initial education in Nepal between 1950 and 1995. Firstly the thesis sets out to explore the historical, religious and cultural background of the development of initial education in Nepal against which the modernization of Nepali education was attempted. The thesis elaborates on the profusion and confusion of educational aims of Nepali government planners and foreign aid workers, and the ways in which these plans impact on Nepali classroom practice and conditions, teacher training programs and the teaching of English as a foreign language.

Name dc:type.qualificationname

phd

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Victoria University of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1999

Author dc:creator

• Kerr, Rosemary

• 1301 Education Systems
• 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
• School of Education

Language dc:language

en