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Mukwambo, Patience – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
While some studies in Zimbabwe have examined the relevance of education in rural settings, very few have done so using a human development-oriented framework such as the capabilities approach, as this paper does. In linking education and human development, the capabilities approach facilitates an examination of intersecting individual contexts and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Rural Areas, Developing Nations
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Forsey, Martin – Ethnography and Education, 2015
Based on research in Karratha, a remote resource town in Western Australia, this paper explores the ways in which blue-collar affluence disturbs the meritocratic mythology of formal education. In the opening decade of the twenty-first century Karratha was one of Australia's most affluent towns, yet its adult population was characterised by a level…
Descriptors: Mining, Rural Areas, Working Class, Foreign Countries
Greenleaf, Walter J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
It is the responsibility of the Bureau of Education to supervise the Federal funds which the land-grant colleges receive from the first Morrill Act of 1862, and from the Morrill-Nelson provisions of 1890 and 1907. The presidents of these institutions are required to make in detail a special annual report concerning the enrollments, teaching staff,…
Descriptors: Income, Private Financial Support, College Curriculum, Correspondence Study