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Tang, Chia Wei; Nguyen, Hoai Than – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
This study focused on evaluating the project on vocational training for rural laborers in Vietnam with respect to its effectiveness in employment creation and poverty reduction among rural laborers. The investigation took the form of a case study; official policy statistics, a survey of 300 project participants and interviews with eight vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Vocational Education
Aisha Yakub – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The lack of access to quality education in northern Nigeria has proven endemic due to the incessant marginalization of the area by various governments since independence to date. The marginalization and lack of investment in teacher training institutions to bridge the manpower gap has created a vicious cycle of poverty, high illiteracy rates, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Faculty Development
Kofol, Chiara; Kriechel, Ben; Vetter, Tim – Education Economics, 2022
In this study we evaluate the impact of a literacy program for internally displaced female refugees in Afghanistan. The results of the evaluation show that the program was beneficial both for the women who received it and for their children, as participants were 50% points more likely to be able to read and write and 19% points more likely to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Poverty, Females, Refugees
Huichao Xie; Heidi Layne; Mardiana Bte Abu Bakar; Mercy Jesuvadian; Ng Ee Lynn; Chew Ping Phoon; Rita Lim; Stephanie Chai; Loh Jie Ying; Jing Cheah; Kenneth Poon – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
The number of low-income families in Singapore is increasing. Young children from impoverished backgrounds are at risk of development gaps and challenges. Research has shown that the accumulation of risk factors from adverse childhood experiences can lead to weaker outcomes later in life. The NTUC First Campus (NFC) launched the Child Support…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Poverty, At Risk Persons, Child Development
Ferreira, Johanna G. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
This article reports on the perceptions of students who participated in a place-based endeavor, the "kids in parks" program, in the largest national park in South Africa. Feedback from students who participated in the program from 2011 to 2017 was analyzed to identify themes. A random sample of 350 messages from students over the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Parks, Outdoor Education, Place Based Education
Oats, Reginald; Gumbo, Meshack T. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2019
A fit-for-purpose, functional program is the vehicle that guarantees the relevance of an education system by ensuring the sustainability of the society. Failure of a program to be relevant has the potential to cause crisis in a society. This basic qualitative research study explored the experiences of the beneficiaries of a skills development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits, Skill Development, Rural Areas
Yung, Betty; Yu, Kam-por; Leung, Barbara Y. P.; Chun, Jack – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
For a service-learning course focusing on poverty, students from a Hong Kong university took a 12-day trip to engage in various poverty alleviation services in Cambodia. This course was border-crossing on five dimensions: (1) urban versus rural, (2) developed versus developing world location, (3) classroom versus practical and experiential, (4)…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Empathy, Moral Values, Developing Nations
Hong, Ijin; Roh, Kyung-hoo – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Objective: This study aims to evaluate the impact of a community development program meant to improve living standards of poor rural families through income generating activities (IGAs) based on conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in Doti, Nepal. Method: We use cross-sectional field data from a sample of 392 families representative of the village…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Development, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Paz-Ybarnegaray, Rodrigo; Douthwaite, Boru – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
This article describes the development and use of a rapid evaluation approach to meet program accountability and learning requirements in a research for development program operating in five developing countries. The method identifies clusters of outcomes, both expected and unexpected, happening within areas of change. In a workshop, change agents…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Accountability, Developing Nations
Cappellini, Chiara; Gilbert, Lisa; Hardy, Henry; McCann, Harriet – National Literacy Trust, 2020
The National Literacy Trust firmly believes in a place-based approach to tackling literacy issues in communities across the UK where low levels of literacy and social mobility are seriously impacting people's lives. In 2013, it launched its Hub model, delivering place-based interventions in areas of the UK with the highest levels of deprivation…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Literacy Education, Intervention, Foreign Countries
Baker, Geoffrey; Frega, Ana Lucía – Music Education Research, 2018
A powerful and eulogistic narrative has evolved around the Venezuelan National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras, better known as El Sistema. Recently, however, critical perspectives have begun to emerge from the academic sphere. Nevertheless, researchers have faced an acute shortage of documentary resources relating to the programme's…
Descriptors: Musicians, Music, Music Education, Social Change
Banks, Sarah; Herrington, Tracey; Carter, Kath – Educational Action Research, 2017
This article introduces the concept of "co-impact" to characterise the complex and dynamic process of social and economic change generated by participatory action research (PAR). It argues that dominant models of research impact tend to see it as a linear process, based on a donor-recipient model, occurring at the end of a project…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Organizations, Participatory Research, Social Change
Bassey, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2016
This article suggests that many of the 16-year-olds who don't achieve a C or better in GCSE English may have had parents who didn't recognise the value of talking to them from the moment they were born. It argues that a bringing together of health visitors, Sure Start centres and primary schools could help lift many children out of the cultural…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Elementary Education, Role of Education, Poverty
Burn, Katharine; Mutton, Trevor; Thompson, Ian; Ingram, Jenni; McNicholl, Jane; Firth, Roger – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2016
The introduction in England of the Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) provided a stimulus to ensure that beginning teachers understand the nature of poverty and critically examine strategies used by schools seeking to overcome the barriers to academic achievement that it presents. This article explores the effects of asking student-teachers within a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Student Teachers, Poverty
Azevedo, Viviane; Robles, Marcos – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) have two main objectives: reducing poverty and increasing the human capital of children. To reach these objectives, transfers are given to poor households conditioned on investments in their children's education, health, and nutrition. Targeting mechanisms used by CCTs have been generally successful in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Attendance