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Magreta-Nyongani, Martha – ProQuest LLC, 2012
School feeding programs enhance the efficiency of the education system by improving enrollment, reducing dropouts and increasing perseverance. They also have the potential to reach the poor, directly making them an effective social safety net. In many low-resource countries, school feeding programs are designed to protect children from the effects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Food, Lunch Programs
McEneaney, Elizabeth H.; Nieswandt, Martina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
Organisational ecology and world cultural perspectives are used to analyse the struggle of the former East German textbook publisher Volk und Wissen after reunification. We argue that the normative expectations of Western Germany with respect to instructional materials clearly emulate world cultural principles, and so Volk und Wissen's transition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Publishing Industry, Textbook Publication