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Robinson, Sir Ken – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
As the world looks to the future and ways to safely return to normal, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have a unique opportunity to reset our priorities and redefine what this normal looks like. For education communities, this is a chance to take a close look at aspects of education systems that we have taken for granted for far too long.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Ainscow, Mel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
This article provides an introductory commentary to the papers in this Prospects special issue on inclusive education. In so doing, it stresses the need to be cautious as we read accounts of inclusive education from other parts of the world: whilst lessons can undoubtedly be learned from the accounts in this special issue, they must be adopted…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Barriers, Educational Research
Abu Awwad, Ali – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
The standoff between Palestine and Israel is one of the most entrenched and enduring conflicts in the world. The cycle of violence and mutual blame seems without end. This Viewpoint argues that non-violence is a path that has yet to be taken in attempting to move toward peace and reconciliation. Non-violence has the potential to overcome the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Relations, Conflict Resolution, Violence
Clarke, Prema – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
This viewpoint examines girls' performance in primary education in the countries that joined the Education for All Fast Track Initiative between 2002 and 2008. At the time they joined the initiative, a first group of countries (high performers) had already achieved high and equal enrollment of girls and boys. Significant progress is evident in a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Females, Strategic Planning, Partnerships in Education
Zembylas, Michalinos – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
This article addresses the dilemmas emerging from efforts to integrate human rights values within a peace education programme being carried out in a conflict situation. Although the article is largely theoretical, it is grounded in the author's reflections on a series of teacher workshops and his overall experiences conducting ethnographic…
Descriptors: Conflict, Ethnography, Peace, Teacher Workshops
Tan, Charlene – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2010
This paper critically discusses the educational policy trajectories of Singapore and Cambodia in an era of globalization. Drawing upon David Johnson's five metaphors to describe the historical and political forces that shape educational policy trajectories, the paper argues that Cambodia's current educational policy trajectory is characterized by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Crossley, Michael – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2010
The article argues that greater attention should be paid to contextual factors in educational research and international development cooperation. The analysis draws upon principles that underpin socio-cultural approaches to comparative education, a critical analysis of the political economy of contemporary educational research, and recent research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Principles, Educational Environment, Politics of Education
Watkins, Marc – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
At the general presentation of the 48th session of the International Conference on Education, "Inclusive Education: The Way of the Future", a "holistic" approach was advocated to improve educational opportunities for children who are excluded from an equal education and adults who are illiterate. The first part of this paper argues that a more…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Equal Education, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities
Rose, Pauline – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
"Absorptive capacity" is a frequently used term amongst development practitioners in education. It is adopted by some as a reason for caution over scaling up aid. Others are of the view that absorptive capacity is an excuse by some donors for not delivering on their Education for All financing commitments. Drawing on interviews with…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Donors, Nongovernmental Organizations, Barriers
Heyneman, Stephen P. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
Since 1990 the education development community has focused on a strategy titled: Education for All. This article argues that, as political strategy, it has been a failure. The article explains why and suggests ways to correct the problem.
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Access to Education
Abadzi, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
Studies have shown that the amount of time students spend engaged in learning tasks is related to learning outcomes. However, schools often offer to the students only a fraction of the time that governments pay for, and schools in lower-income areas often offer less time than governments plan for students. Instructional time ought to be an…
Descriptors: Accountability, Time, Time Blocks, Time Factors (Learning)
Bray, Mark – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
In 2006, the Department for International Development (DfID) of the United Kingdom Government issued a White Paper entitled "Eliminating World Poverty: Making Governance Work for Poor People." The DfID document observed that good governance requires attention to State capability, described at "the extent to which leaders and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Administrative Organization, Policy Analysis
Haste, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
British attitudes toward immigrants are complex. The United Kingdom has received regular waves of immigrants, both political and economic asylum seekers and, especially in recent decades, recruited labor from the former nations of the British Empire. Throughout its history, ambivalence among the Britons is seen due to these developments. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Opinion, Immigration, Immigrants
Reimers, Fernando – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
One of the purposes of educational institutions is to develop citizenship. In the 21st century, citizenship includes global citizenship. Addressing the challenges of globalization will require making citizenship education and the development of global values an explicit objective of efforts to improve quality throughout the world, critically…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Schools, Educational Quality, Health Education
Meuret, Denis – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
In this article, the author discusses the issues concerning selection of educational policy that leans towards educational efficiency or educational equity. The author examines whether it would be necessary to choose between the two and compares the advantages and disadvantages of these policy orientations. The author believes that equity is part…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Compulsory Education
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