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Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Okitsu, Taeko; Mwanza, Peggy – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This study investigates the emergence and supply-demand dynamics of a market for low-fee private schools (LFPS) at the level of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in a slum of Lusaka, Zambia. Based on data collection over 1.5 years, the study reveals that, despite a government policy to support ECCE, over 90% of ECCE centers are private;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Fees, Supply and Demand
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Chawla-Duggan, Rita – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
This paper focuses upon the micro level of the pre-school classroom, taking the example of the Indian Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS), and the discourse of "child-centred" pedagogy that is often associated with quality pre-schooling. Through an analysis of visual data, semi-structured and film elicitation interviews drawn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Child Development, Semi Structured Interviews
Soto, Sebastián; Cordero, Juan Luis – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of the present report is to show a comprehensive diagnosis of the situation of two low-cost private schools (Destiny and Saint Martin's schools) located in two slums (Mathare and Kibera) of Nairobi, capital city of Kenya, that Educafrica's team found before starting a collaboration programme through field volunteers work. A wide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Slum Schools, Access to Education