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Essiet, Inimfon Aniema; Salmon, Jo; Lander, Natalie J.; Duncan, Michael J.; Eyre, Emma L. J.; Barnett, Lisa M. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2021
Physical literacy serves as the foundation for several skills or attributes needed for lifelong physical activity participation. Based on its connection to physical activity, physical literacy has been associated with a wide variety of positive health outcomes. While research suggests that teachers play a crucial role in fostering children's…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Physical Activities, Literacy, Measures (Individuals)
Vanner, Catherine; Kovinthan Levi, Thursica; Akseer, Spogmai – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
Primary school textbooks can provide space for learning about peace and inclusion but can also reinforce messages of inequality and division. This article describes a thematic analysis of South Sudan's textbooks for pupils in Grade 4 Social Studies, English, and Christian Religious Education. The analysis uses a conceptual framework that positions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Textbook Content
Fincham, Kathleen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2019
Within the Sudanese context, education retention and completion are major challenges that have not been seriously and sufficiently addressed. In order to understand in more depth how and why children drop out of primary school in Sudan, six empirical studies were planned as part of an EU-funded national programme focused on primary education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Dropouts, Academic Persistence
Nishimura, Mikiko – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2019
The Free Primary Education (FPE) policy in Kenya created a dichotomy between the widespread notion that the government should be responsible for everything and the reality that the government had stopped recruiting teachers. This article investigates the current state of the accountability system for school governance in public schools in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Educational Policy, Accountability
Crouch, Luis; Merseth, Katherine A. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This paper highlights patterns in school enrollment indicators that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of education systems in a set of low-income countries: those that have expanded access quickly in the last decade or two, but have not yet absorbed that expansion efficiently. Although the patterns in these indicators are observable in the…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Low Income Groups, Developing Nations, Educational Indicators
Crea, Thomas M.; Diaz-Valdes, Antonia Eliana; Gruenfeld, Elizabeth; Acevedo, José; Cerney, Blain; Medina, Marlon; Hernandez, Glenda; Canelas, Olga – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
School feeding programs in low- and middle-income countries tend to focus on school attendance and literacy. Some evidence suggests that bolstering schools as a nexus of community plays an important psychosocial function for children and families. This study examines the extent to which childhood literacy rates are associated with parents' and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Low Income Groups, Literacy
Shukla, Vachaspati; Mishra, Udaya S. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This article evaluates the progress in literacy among the Indian states, from an age-cohort perspective. It argues that age-cohort analysis offers a robust understanding of the dynamics of literacy progress. The article clearly brings out the fact that, despite the accomplishment of universal elementary education, achieving the goal of full…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Academic Achievement, Demography
Jurmo, Paul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This article presents a case study of a five-year English-literacy project carried out in primary and middle schools in the Pacific island nation of Tonga from 2012 to 2017. It summarizes why and how the project was begun; the activities carried out by Peace Corps Volunteers and Tongan partners; its objectives; and the products, procedures, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Literacy Education, English (Second Language)
Boyle, Helen N.; Salah, Wail – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
In light of disappointing scores on the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), Arabic-speaking countries have begun to reexamine, and in some case reform, how they teach reading in the early grades. Egypt was one of the first countries to initiate early-grade reading reforms in 2010.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Educational Change, Reading Tests
Gkotzos, Dimitrios – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This article presents an effort to integrate the issues of climate change and children's rights into the Greek primary school curriculum through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The curriculum Act for Climate was developed through the lens of children's rights and with the support of a web-based learning environment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Childrens Rights, Climate
Valle-Lisboa, Juan; Cabana, Álvaro; Eisinger, Robert; Mailhos, Álvaro; Luzardo, Mario; Halberda, Justin; Maiche, Alejandro – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
In unequal societies the effectiveness of formal education depends on the socioeconomic status (SES) of students. Studies have shown that poverty affects the development of the brain in ways that might compromise future learning, thus increasing the differences between groups with different SES. Interest is growing in the development of tools that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Intervention, Mathematics Skills, Schemata (Cognition)
Singal, Nidhi – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article presents an analysis of key developments in educational policies and strategies, since 2000, in relation to the education of children with disabilities in India and Pakistan. It responds to a set of specific questions focused on factors that have shaped the increased emphasis on education of children with disabilities, how national…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Criticism
DeGraff, Michel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article aims at a deeper understanding of the importance of native languages in education and development, with Haiti as a case study. About half of Haiti's population is illiterate. Among ten children who enter the first grade, at most one (10%) will graduate from high school; a large proportion will drop out of school at an early age.…
Descriptors: Creoles, Native Language, Books, French
Nonoyama-Tarumi, Yuko; Hughes, Kathleen; Willms, J. Douglas – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article compares the effects of family background and school resources on fourth-grade students' math achievement, using data from the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In order to ameliorate potential floor effects, it uses relative risk and population attributable risk to examine the effects of family…
Descriptors: Role, Family Characteristics, Socioeconomic Background, Risk
Mitra, Sugata – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This paper describes the effect that assistive technologies, such as paper, printing, protractors, logarithm tables, computers, and the Internet, have on pedagogy. It reports the results of experiments with self-organising systems in primary education and develops the concept of a self-organised learning environment (SOLE). It then describes how…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Teaching Methods, Educational Environment, Technology