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Quality of Life in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Health Problems
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Álvarez-Aguado, Izaskun; Vega Córdova, Vanessa; Farhang, Maryam; González Carrasco, Félix; Espinosa Parra, Felipe; Spencer González, Herbert; Aguado, Leyre Álvarez – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Background: The number of people with intellectual disabilities and associated mental illness has increased considerably in recent years. This population presents greater obstacles than their peers without mental health problems in accessing education, leisure, and health services. This, conditions their quality of life (QoL) and makes them one of…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Adults, Intellectual Disability, Mental Health
Operation Mechanism and Evaluation of "County High School Education Model" in the Context of Chinese College Entrance Examination System
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Huang, Jiagan – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
The "county high school phenomenon" of Chinese rural high school education to pursue higher education has attracted much attention from the education field and society. Earlier studies were mostly from the perspective of education and believed that the "county high school education model" was contrary to education's essence…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Entrance Examinations, Rural Schools, Student Mobility
China: Early Childhood Development. SABER Country Report, 2016
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Kidwai, Huma; Chen, Dandan – World Bank, 2016
This report presents the latest analysis of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and policies that affect young children in the People's Republic of China and poses overall recommendations to move forward. Shanghai, being a model for several developmental issues in China, is used as an example to help elucidate viewpoints whenever…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Government Role, Child Development
Accelerating the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Ghana: Literacy, the Missing Link
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Tagoe, Michael Ayitey – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
The Millennium Development Goals launched in 2001 provide a worldwide agenda to reduce poverty by 2015. Though the eight goals provide synergies for the rapid reduction of poverty, the MDGs have come under criticism for being too narrow and sometimes leaving out critical aspects of human development and well-being. Although the MDGs address some…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Economic Progress, Poverty, Illiteracy
Bender-Gestalt Performance of Sierra Leone, West African Children from Four Sub-Cultures.
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Karr, Sharon K. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The quality of the Bender-Gestalt performance of normal class-six children in four Sierra Leone subcultures with varying degrees of modernization showed the quality of the reproductions of the most modern subcultures to be significantly higher. The interaction of gender and the parallel to adult divisions of labor are discussed. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: African Culture, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
The Effect of Integrated Basic Education Programs on Women's Social and Economic Well-Being in Bolivia.
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Hua, Haiyan; Burchfield, Shirley – 2003
A large-scale longitudinal study in Bolivia examined the relationship between adult women's basic education and their social and economic well-being and development. A random sample of 1,600 participants and 600 nonparticipants, aged 15-45, was tracked for 3 years (the final sample included 717 participants and 224 controls). The four adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Individual Development