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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Fee-Free Public or Low-Fee Private Basic Education in Rural Ghana: How Does the Cost Influence the Choice of the Poor?
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Akaguri, Luke – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
The paper uses data from a household survey of three rural communities and interviews in the Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana to investigate the costs incurred by households that choose either fee-free public schools or low-fee private schools. The paper shows that both provisions impose costs that place those with lower…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Community Surveys, Student Costs
"COMPARE" Forum: The Post-2015 Education and Development Agenda
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Sayed, Yusuf; Sprague, Terra; Turner, David; Smith, Alan; Paulson, Julia; Shields, Robin; Shrestha, Purna Kumar; Unterhalter, Elaine; Vaughan, Rosie Peppin; Smail, Amy; Tungaraza, Frida; Sutherland, Margaret; Stack, Niamah; Barrett, Angeline M.; Bunwaree, Vasant K.; Alhawsawi, Sajjad; Hanna, Helen; Soudien, Crain; Motivans, Albert – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
As the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, there are a growing number of processes, preparations and debates on what a post-2015 agenda and framework will look like. The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) (as chaired by the United Nations Development Programme) is leading the planning of efforts…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Changes in Chinese Education under Globalisation and Market Economy: Emerging Issues and Debates
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Guo, Shibao; Guo, Yan; Beckett, Gulbahar; Li, Qing; Guo, Linyuan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
Fuelled by forces of globalisation, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to the "socialist market economy". This study examines changes in Chinese education under globalisation and market economy, focusing on the teaching and living conditions of teachers. The study reveals that the profound transformation of social and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Faculty Workload, Social Status
Education for Diversity: The Role of Networking in Resisting Disabled People's Marginalisation in Bangladesh
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Miles, Susie; Fefoame, Gertrude Oforiwa; Mulligan, Diane; Haque, Zakia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
This article examines the role networking has played, at local and national levels, in facilitating communication between key actors involved in challenging the marginalisation of disabled people from education and from wider Bangladeshi society. Efforts to promote awareness of the importance of including disabled children in their local schools…
Descriptors: Self Help Programs, Rural Areas, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries
Interrogating Discourses of Intercultural Education: From Indigenous Amazon Community to Global Policy Forum
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Aikman, Sheila – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
This article investigates discourses of intercultural education, taking as its starting point two "encounters" in 2010 with contrasting aims and expectations of intercultural education. One is the launch of the 2010 Global Monitoring Report, where intercultural education is viewed as a means of overcoming marginalisation and promoting inclusion,…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Social Change, Disadvantaged, Rural Areas
Formal Education and Pastoralism in Western India: Inclusion, or Adverse Incorporation?
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Dyer, Caroline – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
The education exclusion of pastoralists is increasingly recognised as a critical area for attention in progress towards Education For All. This article sets out two interlinked propositions as to what underlies barriers to education inclusion for pastoralists in India: a conflation of "education" with schooling; and ambiguity over whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Access to Education, Inclusion
South-South Migration and Education: The Case of People of Haitian Descent Born in the Dominican Republic
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Bartlett, Lesley – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
The world is witnessing an era of unprecedented human mobility and much of this movement entails migration between countries in the global south. This article contributes to the development of an important new line of inquiry within the field of comparative and international education: South-South migration and education. In the first section, I…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Migration, Immigrants
EFA, Civil Society and the Post-2015 Agenda
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Verger, Antoni; Sayed, Yusuf; Hiroshi, Ito; Croso, Camilla; Beardmore, Sarah – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
The year 2015 is the deadline for most of the Education for All (EFA) goals. As this date gets closer, reviews about what has been done and reflection about future agendas will multiply. This Forum aims to contribute such a pressing debate, bringing together contributors from key international organisations within the EFA movement. They are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Conditions, Public Education, Access to Education
Global Frameworks, Local Contingencies: Policy Translations and Education Development in India
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Mukhopadhyay, Rahul; Sriprakash, Arathi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
Policies and programmes pursuing the universalisation of elementary education (UEE) in developing nations have been influenced by a set of complex forces in international, state, and local arenas. This paper explores how a large-scale standardised assessment programme shaped by international and market-oriented discourses has been differently…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Educational Policy
The Challenge of Comparison: Understanding Global Educational Standards
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Soudien, Crain – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
As the world works towards 2015 when it will finally assess the progress it has made towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals it set for itself at Jomtien in 1991, it has become clear that important gains have been made in education. Equality of access has been, understandably, at the top of the world policy agenda for the last 20 years or…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Academic Standards, National Standards, Standard Setting
Perspectives on International Aid in Conflict Affected Countries
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Arthur, Lore – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
For many, 1 March 2011 is a significant date. On the one hand, it was the day that David Mitchell, the international development secretary, presented the key outcomes of two major reviews on international aid to the Houses of Parliament; and on the other, 1 March was the date chosen for the simultaneous launch of the 2011 Global Monitoring Report…
Descriptors: International Education, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Responding to the Gender and Education Millennium Development Goals in South Africa and Kenya: Reflections on Education Rights, Gender Equality, Capabilities and Global Justice
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Unterhalter, Elaine; North, Amy – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
This paper explores understandings of gender equality and education and the nature of global goal and target setting, drawing on empirical data collected in central and local government departments in Kenya and South Africa reflecting on their implementation of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1, concerned with poverty, MDG 2, concerned with…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Poverty Programs
Girls' and Women's Education within Unesco and the World Bank, 1945-2000
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Peppin Vaughan, Rosie – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
By 2000, girls' and women's education was a priority for international development organisations. While studies have examined the impact of recent campaigns and programmes, there has been less exploration of ideas about girls' and women's education within development thought in the immediate post-colonial period, and the political mechanisms…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Females, Womens Education, Womens Studies
Promoting Gender Equality in the Context of Nigerian Cultural and Religious Expression: Beyond Increasing Female Access to Education
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Para-Mallam, Funmi J. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
National education policies in Nigeria aim at addressing female disprivilege by improving girl-child enrolment in schools in line with Millennium Development Goal targets. In addition, the National Gender Policy and its Strategic Implementation Framework stress the importance of mainstreaming gender perspectives within the education sector by…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Womens Education
Gender Mainstreaming: Myths and Measurement in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania
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Morley, Louise – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This article critically examines the concept of gender mainstreaming and raises questions about a series of category slippages in debates and discussions. Some key concerns are the way in which women are constructed as a unified analytical category, and how gender equality is frequently reduced to issues of representation. It also critically…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Comparative Education
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