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31 produkter
'Poor Child'
The cultural politics of education, development and childhood
Av Lucy Hopkins, Arathi Sriprakash
Häftad, 2019
711 kr
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Why are development discourses of the ‘poor child’ in need of radical revision? What are the theoretical and methodological challenges and possibilities for ethical understandings of childhoods and poverty? The ‘poor child’ at the centre of development activity is often measured against and …
Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens
Neoliberalism and Youth Livelihoods in Tanzania
Häftad, 2019
711 kr
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Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens examines the multiple and contradictory purposes and effects of entrepreneurship education aimed at addressing youth unemployment and alleviating poverty in Tanzania.Governments in sub-Saharan Africa face increasing pressure to educate young people through …
Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality
How People Make Policy Happen
Av Elaine Unterhalter, Amy North
Häftad, 2019
711 kr
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Drawing on case-study research that examined initiatives which engaged with global aspirations to advance gender equality in schooling in Kenya and South Africa, this book looks at how global frameworks on gender, education and poverty are interpreted in local settings and the politics of …
Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts
Research and Policy in International Development
Av Pauline Rose, Madeleine Arnot m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2656 kr
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This book offers in-depth analyses of how education interacts with social inequality in Southern contexts. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks, it presents new analyses of existing knowledge and new empirical data which define the challenges and possibilities of successful educational …
Politics of English Language Education and Social Inequality
Global Pressures, National Priorities and Schooling in India
Av Maya Kalyanpur, Padmini Bhuyan Boruah m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2064 kr
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Based on policy analysis and empirical data, this book examines the problematic consequences of colonial legacies of language policies and English language education in the multilingual contexts of the Global South.Using a postcolonial lens, the volume explores the raciolinguistics of language …
Politics of English Language Education and Social Inequality
Global Pressures, National Priorities and Schooling in India
Av Maya Kalyanpur, Padmini Bhuyan Boruah m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
458 kr
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Based on policy analysis and empirical data, this book examines the problematic consequences of colonial legacies of language policies and English language education in the multilingual contexts of the Global South.Using a postcolonial lens, the volume explores the raciolinguistics of language …
Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts
Research and Policy in International Development
Av Pauline Rose, Madeleine Arnot m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
627 kr
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This book offers in-depth analyses of how education interacts with social inequality in Southern contexts. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks, it presents new analyses of existing knowledge and new empirical data which define the challenges and possibilities of successful educational …
Mothers and Schooling
Poverty, Gender and Educational Decision-Making in Rural Kenya
Inbunden, 2021
2431 kr
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This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their children, despite the ‘free education …
Mothers and Schooling
Poverty, Gender and Educational Decision-Making in Rural Kenya
Häftad, 2023
627 kr
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This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their children, despite the ‘free education …
Education Outcomes and Poverty
A Reassessment
Av Christopher Colclough, Christopher Colclough
Häftad, 2014
725 kr
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Education has an extraordinarily important role to play in efforts to eliminate poverty world-wide. This book reveals the nature and complexity of these relationships and provides indispensible pointers to the kinds and extent of policy changes that are required. Based on highly innovative research …
Education Outcomes and Poverty
A Reassessment
Av Christopher Colclough, Christopher Colclough
Inbunden, 2012
2431 kr
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What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty …
Livelihoods and Learning
Education For All and the marginalisation of mobile pastoralists
Inbunden, 2014
2431 kr
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Current paradigms of ‘development’ generally serve mobile pastoralist groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is minimal, and their mobility is constructed by the powerful as a ‘problem’, rather than as a rational livelihood strategy. Increasingly damaged eco-systems, shrinking natural …
Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development
A Global Analysis
Av Bob Moon
Inbunden, 2012
2431 kr
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In developing countries across the world, qualified teachers are a rarity, with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all. The supply of high-quality teachers is falling behind: poor status, low salaries and inadequate working …
Learner-centred Education in International Perspective
Whose pedagogy for whose development?
Inbunden, 2013
2431 kr
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Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms?Learner-centred education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and national governments. Arguments in favour of this pedagogical tradition refer to theories and evidence from cognitive …
Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South
Challenges for policy, practice and research
Av Leon Tikly, Angeline M. Barrett
Inbunden, 2012
2431 kr
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How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of education, particularly for the most …
Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good
The role of universities in promoting human development
Av Melanie Walker, Monica McLean
Inbunden, 2013
2431 kr
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This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate public-good …
Gender Violence in Poverty Contexts
The educational challenge
Av Jenny Parkes
Inbunden, 2015
2656 kr
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This book is concerned with understanding the complex ways in which gender violence and poverty impact on young people’s lives, and the potential for education to challenge violence. Although there has been a recent expansion of research on gender violence and schooling, the field of research that …
'Poor Child'
The cultural politics of education, development and childhood
Av Lucy Hopkins, Arathi Sriprakash
Inbunden, 2015
2431 kr
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Why are development discourses of the ‘poor child’ in need of radical revision? What are the theoretical and methodological challenges and possibilities for ethical understandings of childhoods and poverty? The ‘poor child’ at the centre of development activity is often measured against and …
Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality
How People Make Policy Happen
Av Elaine Unterhalter, Amy North
Inbunden, 2017
2431 kr
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Drawing on case-study research that examined initiatives which engaged with global aspirations to advance gender equality in schooling in Kenya and South Africa, this book looks at how global frameworks on gender, education and poverty are interpreted in local settings and the politics of …
Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa
Secular Erasure, School Preference and Social Inequality
Inbunden, 2024
2431 kr
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This book uses perceptions and experiences of Qur’anic schools in West Africa to outline a much-needed postsecular approach, reconsidering the place of Islamic education within African decolonial debates about educational pluralism, and the contributions of religious perspectives in academic and …
Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa
Secular Erasure, School Preference and Social Inequality
Häftad, 2026
688 kr
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This book uses perceptions and experiences of Qur’anic schools in West Africa to outline a much-needed postsecular approach, reconsidering the place of Islamic education within African decolonial debates about educational pluralism, and the contributions of religious perspectives in academic and …
Reconceptualising the Learning Crisis in Africa
Multi-dimensional Pedagogies of Accelerated Learning Programmes
Av Kwame Akyeampong, Sean Higgins
Inbunden, 2025
2431 kr
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This book offers a powerful, post‑colonial rejection of the so‑called global ‘learning crisis’ that offers deficit models of the experiences, knowledges, identities and relationships of African children, eroding their agency and dignity and undermining their learning opportunities and …
Reconceptualising the Learning Crisis in Africa
Multi-dimensional Pedagogies of Accelerated Learning Programmes
Av Kwame Akyeampong, Sean Higgins
Häftad, 2026
669 kr
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This book offers a powerful, post‑colonial rejection of the so‑called global ‘learning crisis’ that offers deficit models of the experiences, knowledges, identities and relationships of African children, eroding their agency and dignity and undermining their learning opportunities and …
Educational Expansion and the Promise of Social Mobility in a Post-colonial Context
The Case of Pakistan
Av Arif Naveed, Madeleine Arnot m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2396 kr
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Arif Naveed’s scholarship offers an in-depth analysis of whether the promise of social mobility offered by the expansion of education in Pakistan has been delivered. It asks how education has impacted on the national poverty-education gap and whether education succeeds at a local level, given the …
Livelihoods and Learning
Education For All and the marginalisation of mobile pastoralists
Häftad, 2017
711 kr
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Current paradigms of ‘development’ generally serve mobile pastoralist groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is minimal, and their mobility is constructed by the powerful as a ‘problem’, rather than as a rational livelihood strategy. Increasingly damaged eco-systems, shrinking natural …
Gender Violence in Poverty Contexts
The educational challenge
Av Jenny Parkes
Häftad, 2016
711 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is concerned with understanding the complex ways in which gender violence and poverty impact on young people’s lives, and the potential for education to challenge violence. Although there has been a recent expansion of research on gender violence and schooling, the field of research that …
Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens
Neoliberalism and Youth Livelihoods in Tanzania
Inbunden, 2017
2431 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens examines the multiple and contradictory purposes and effects of entrepreneurship education aimed at addressing youth unemployment and alleviating poverty in Tanzania.Governments in sub-Saharan Africa face increasing pressure to educate young people through …
Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development
A Global Analysis
Av Bob Moon
Häftad, 2014
796 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In developing countries across the world, qualified teachers are a rarity, with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all. The supply of high-quality teachers is falling behind: poor status, low salaries and inadequate working …
Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South
Challenges for policy, practice and research
Av Leon Tikly, Angeline M. Barrett
Häftad, 2015
866 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of education, particularly for the most …
Learner-centred Education in International Perspective
Whose pedagogy for whose development?
Häftad, 2015
796 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Is learner-centred education appropriate for all societies and classrooms?Learner-centred education (LCE) is a travelling policy, widely promoted by international agencies and national governments. Arguments in favour of this pedagogical tradition refer to theories and evidence from cognitive …
