EDUCATIONAL PROCESS AND EDUCATIONAL TOOLS FOR THE DISTANCE EDUCATION OR TRAINING OF RURAL WOMEN POPULATION OF ASIA

Year 2013, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 1 - 9, 01.04.2013

Anna Kokkalı İrene Georgıadu

Abstract

The aim of this work is to investigate the educational process and the educational tools that are used for distance education and training of rural women population in Asia and to detect the factors that must be taken into consideration for their choice. For the achievement of this aim was held bibliographic research, so as to locate characteristic cases of application of distance methodology in the education of the particular team of population. This investigation showed that in order to achieve the aim of distance programs of education or training of women of countryside, we will take account during the planning and their application of the educational, social, technological and economic conditions that prevail in the living region of these women, so as to select the suitable educational tools and the suitable educational process. Moreover, from the retrospection of bibliography it became obvious that the role of distance education is crucial for the upgrade of the role of women of the Asiatic countryside, for their emancipation, the access in the knowledge, the fighting of unemployment and finally for the improvement of conditions of their life.

Keywords

Asiatic rural women population, distance education and training, educational process and tools

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