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Foster, Jesse; Addy, Nii Antiyae; Samoff, Joel – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
Published articles permit mapping international and comparative education research. We reviewed 605 articles published 2004-2008 in four major journals. Using title, abstract, and entire text we explored thematic focus, geographic focus, level/type of education studied, method, and funding. The economic, political, and social context of education…
Descriptors: International Education, Comparative Education, Concept Mapping, Educational Research
Lynch, Paul; McCall, Steve; Douglas, Graeme; McLinden, Mike; Mogesa, Bernard; Mwaura, Martha; Muga, John; Njoroge, Michael – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
This article presents a findings from an investigation of the work of 38 specialist itinerant teachers (ITs) supporting the educational inclusion of children with visual impairment in Kenya. The research was designed around a participatory action research framework involving in-country researchers and participants (teachers) working in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Impairments, Action Research, Educational Practices
Smith, Michele; Barrett, Angeline M. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
This paper considers what multilevel modelling approaches to analysing large scale cross-national surveys of education quality can tell us about the capabilities that support primary school children in learning to read. The impact of pupil background characteristics on achievement in reading towards the end of the primary cycle in sub-Saharan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Status, Low Income, Grade 6
Rubagiza, Jolly; Were, Edmond; Sutherland, Rosamund – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
The Rwandan government views Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a key tool for transforming the economy, with the education sector playing an important role in developing the necessary human resources. Since 2000 there has been a big push to introduce computers into schools and integrate ICT into the education curriculum through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Rural Areas, Human Resources
Anderson, Stephen; Kumari, Roshni – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This article investigates conceptually and practically what it means for schools to engage in the practice of continuous improvement. The analysis draws upon prior research and discussion to predict core elements of the practice of continuous improvement in schools. The predictions are then applied to a case study of continuous improvement efforts…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Case Studies, Secondary Schools, College School Cooperation
Mncube, Vusi; Harber, Clive – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
An interview-based qualitative study was undertaken to explore the experiences and practices of educators in providing democratic schooling as a way of delivering quality education for learners in schools. The exploration looked at educators' understandings of the concept of democracy in schools, their understanding of the concept quality…
Descriptors: Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
de la Sablonniere, Roxane; Taylor, Donald M.; Sadykova, Nazgul – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
The challenge of maximizing student learning has been paramount in many societies. This issue has become especially salient in the context of drastic social and political changes that have taken place in countries such as Kyrgyzstan. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, teachers and students are confronted with new ways of thinking, which are…
Descriptors: Social Change, Foreign Countries, Social Theories, Educational Change
Halai, Anjum – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
This paper focuses on gender awareness issues as a dimension of addressing the wider issue of the quality of education in Pakistan from the perspective of social justice. In Pakistan classrooms, boys and girls learn separately and therefore teachers and others tend to think that there are no gender issues once access is achieved and the learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Change
Nonoyama-Tarumi, Yuko; Bredenberg, Kurt – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
To reduce the high repetition rates in early years of primary school, the government of Cambodia piloted a school readiness program (SRP) in the first two months of Grade 1 of primary school. This study examines whether such intervention has effects on students' immediate acquisition of school readiness skills as well as students' longer term…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Intervention, Primary Education, Foreign Countries
Kim, Chae-Young – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
The paper considers whether letting children combine work and school is a valid and effective approach in Cambodia. Policy makers' suggestions that child labour should be allowed to some extent due to household poverty appear ungrounded as no significant relation between children's work and household poverty is found while arranging school…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Poverty, Child Labor, Foreign Countries
Trudell, Barbara – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
In discussions of Africa in the global North, the term "development" is one of the most often used--though its meaning can be remarkably difficult to pin down. The sustainability of development processes and outcomes is also of current concern in development discourse. If sustainable development can be described in terms of ongoing,…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Language Role, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
O'Sullivan, Margo – International Journal of Educational Development, 2006
Quality in primary education is currently high on the education agenda in developing countries. What is quality? How can we effectively measure it? How can we achieve it? How can we improve it? The author considers two suggestions to be critical to answering these above questions and engages with them in this article: (1) place what is happening…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Elementary Education, Developing Nations, Educational Development