caa a22 4500 465761313 CHVBK 20180323111900.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02372413 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02372413 Adaptating American adult-education methods in lesotho [Elektronische Daten] [John Masten, Donald Richard] This article deals with a project sponsored by the US Agency for International Development that was designed to transfer American adult-education techniques to the developing nation of Lesotho in southern Africa. The goal of the transfer was to improve the quality of education in Lesotho at the primary-school level by creating a nation-wide program to improve teacher skills. Intensive, after-hours, in-country, college-level training was offered to the country's teachers. Although this approach is common in developed countries, it was a first-time innovative technique for Lesotho. More than 400 primary school teachers participated in the program. The transfer was initially difficult to implement because of a lack of institutional and governmental interest and a "gap” between project implementation requirements and the Ministry of Education's management capacity. A contingency approach was developed that partially bypassed local institutions. In the short term, the project has succeeded in producing 334 "graduates” and in raising the level of local interest. Technology Transfer Society, 1990 Masten John School of Business at Tennessee State University, Nashville aut Richard Donald School of Business at Tennessee State University, Nashville aut The Journal of Technology Transfer Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/3(1990-06-01), 40-44 0892-9912 15:3<40 1990 15 10961 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02372413 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02372413 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Masten John School of Business at Tennessee State University, Nashville aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Richard Donald School of Business at Tennessee State University, Nashville aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Technology Transfer Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/3(1990-06-01), 40-44 0892-9912 15:3<40 1990 15 10961 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer