Showing papers in "International Journal of Educational Development in 2012"

TL;DR: This paper found that public schools are more likely to serve disadvantaged students than private voucher schools and that disadvantaged students are more segregated among private for-profit and non-profit schools than among public schools.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the socioeconomic stratification of achievement in the Chilean voucher system using a census of 4th and 8th graders, a multilevel methodology, and accounting for unobserved selectivity into school sector, finding that the association between the school's aggregate family socioeconomic status (SES) and test scores is much greater in the private-voucher sector than in the public one.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the current approach to VET is grounded in an outmoded model of development, whilst the academic critique of VET in developing countries is clearly long outdated, and examine the implications for VET of recent trends in thinking about development through the exploration of three particular theoretical approaches: human rights, capabilities and integrated human development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of attending a cram school on students' academic performance and found that the opportunity of attending cram school participation reflects specific patterns of stratification.

TL;DR: The authors examines experiences with skills development in South Africa to contribute to broader debates about "skills" and the relationships between vocational education and development, and demonstrates some of the weaknesses of so-called "market-led" vocational education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the effects of rapid increases in gender parity in primary schooling in Bangladesh and Malawi on gender inequities in schools and communities and argue that educational initiatives focused on achieving gender parity provide limited evidence that girls' educational experiences modeled significantly different gender norms than in communities, or that by being educated, girls experienced a transformation of the inequitable gender relations they faced in society.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of over 7800 grade 7, 8, and 9 students from 46 randomly selected junior high schools in four counties in two provinces in North and Northwest China to measure the dropout rate was conducted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the capabilities approach to the broader debate of the role of vocational education and training (VET) in poverty alleviation, by placing the well-being of VET students at the centre of our concern.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore two contrasting normative models for education policy, and the relationship of each to policy, practices and outcomes that can improve lives by reducing injustice and building societies which value capabilities for all.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of China's rural-urban migration on high school attendance of left-behind children by disentangling the effect of remittances from that of migration.

TL;DR: In this article, interviews conducted with township girls in South Africa show enduring experiences of sexual violence both in and out of the school and the implication for increasing girls' exercise of agency is raised as a human rights issue.

TL;DR: The United Nations' Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) is past its halfway milestone; yet, its overall impact on educational thinking and practice remains unclear in most places and regions of the world as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The concept of development has evolved from an exclusive focus on economic growth towards an interrelated, even integrated approach involving progress across a range of disciplines such as health, education, economics and agriculture as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This article explored aspects of retention in Kajiado schools, and found that despite environmental, infrastructural and economic constraints, despite these constraints, girls' retention was linked to their zeal for education and to the part played by key people, supporting and encouraging them and sometimes acting as catalysts for change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that specific aspects of this new curriculum have effectively alienated and/or divided large segments of its population, despite a desire for the reforms to result in a more inclusive, democratic and distinctly “Timorese” educational system.

TL;DR: This article explored the training needs of teacher educators in Tanzania who, in the light of recent reforms to teacher education, will be responsible for education and training at the pre and in-service levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the effectiveness of a game-based mobile learning model for children living in underdeveloped regions with significant contextual variations and found that children with little or no previous exposure to technology were able to not only figure out the given mobile learning technology, but also solve a series of incrementally challenging problems without specific intervention or instruction by adults.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore changing patterns of access to basic education in six Sub-Saharan Africa countries using data from Demographic and Health Surveys at two points in time.

TL;DR: The South Africa Schools Act requires every child to attend school from the first school day of the year in which such learner reaches the age of seven years until the last day of a year, or the ninth grade, whichever comes first as mentioned in this paper, and the trend associated with access remains consistent, with the only major change over the past 10 years being the improved levels of enrollment of six and seven year old children.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the drivers and meanings behind the dramatic rise of technical and vocational education and training in the policy and political agenda of India and examine the assumptions about the existing traditions and character of India's culture or cultures of skills development.

TL;DR: The authors explored women's experiences of their roles as entrepreneurs, and reflected on how the learning processes and outcomes associated with micro-credit schemes "shape the self" often in quite unpredictable ways.

TL;DR: The authors measured the impact of war on a sample of 43 countries in Africa from 1950 to 2010 by means of a time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) database and found that government expenditures in social sectors including education are a positive factor in increasing school enrollment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide the global trends and current developments in school-based management in Indonesia with an emphasis on how SBM has created partnership and participatory decision-making processes in school level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed school leaders' perspectives regarding the Qatar National Professional Standards for Teachers and School Leaders and the recently introduced accompanying licensure system, and found that these policies use ambiguous terminology and procedures, ignore local educators input, and provide unrealistic expectations of society, lack consistency and created resistance on the part of educators.

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between family socioeconomic status and mathematics performance on the base of a multi-level analysis involving a large sample of Chinese primary school students and found that individuals from a disadvantaged family and higher socioeconomic background have a higher probability to attain higher mathematics scores.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the process of integrating the concept of the ecological footprint at the high school level, analyzes the school's ecological footprint, and discusses its contributions to education for sustainability in schools.

TL;DR: This article found that the majority of immigrant students heightened their ethnic self-awareness in forming their identity, but also assumed hyphenated identities, and the self-agency of immigrants was twofold in nature; they want to improve their own condition, and there seemed to be an inherent drive to improve the human condition of others.

TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of the rural primary school mergers on academic performance of students using a dataset from a survey that was designed to reflect transfer paths and boarding statuses of students.