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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)
Gleddie, Douglas L.; Morgan, Andrew – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2021
This article aims to propose a theoretical framework, based on the literature, that supports the growth of students' physical literacy in physical education. The framework features a trained educator who seeks to establish a positive climate for learning based on the creation of a positive culture of movement. It features meaningful student…
Descriptors: Literacy, Physical Education, Transformative Learning, Integrated Curriculum
Lewin, Keith M. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted education and development priorities. The tragic death toll and high rates of morbidity across many countries are an unprecedented setback and a calamity for those affected physically and mentally. The economic and social effects of lockdowns, loss of production and business confidence, and global…
Descriptors: Reflection, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Planning
Moriarty, Kate – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is an emergency of an exceptional scale, with major impacts on education globally and with significant new challenges for education in existing humanitarian contexts. This Viewpoint reflects on the immediate challenges of continuing education in humanitarian contexts and on the experience of the Inter-agency Network for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, International Organizations, Emergency Programs
Daniel, Sir John – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is a huge challenge to education systems. This Viewpoint offers guidance to teachers, institutional heads, and officials on addressing the crisis. What preparations should institutions make in the short time available and how do they address students' needs by level and field of study? Reassuring students and parents is a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Capacity Building
d'Orville, Hans – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
COVID-19 confronts the education system with a new and massive crisis. What should a "new normal" look like for future generations? How can countries use the innovativeness of the recovery period to "build back better"? This Viewpoint highlights the UNESCO-led Global Coalition for Education initiative, which is seeking…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Global Approach
Zhao, Yong – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
The massive damages of COVID-19 may be incalculable. But in the spirit of never wasting a good crisis, COVID-19 represents an opportunity to rethink education. The rethinking should not be about improving schooling, but should focus on the what, how, and where of learning. This article highlights some of the questions that schools can ask as they…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Thomas, Michael S. C.; Rogers, Cathy – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
In the COVID-19 crisis, the science of learning has two different responsibilities: first, to offer guidance about how best to deal with the impact of the current situation, including lockdown and home-schooling; and second, to consider bigger questions about what this large-scale educational experiment might mean for the future. The first part of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Learning, Educational Research, Pandemics
Chabbott, Colette; Sinclair, Margaret – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
COVID-19 once again revealed the inherent weaknesses in relying on classroom-based schooling and ICT to sustain learning, a danger already familiar from earlier man-made and natural disasters. A lack of textbooks and lack of guidance for caregivers to support home-based learning limited the effectiveness of efforts to provide continuity of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Educational Change, Textbooks, Home Schooling
Boyle, Christopher; Anderson, Joanna – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
This article discusses the justification for inclusive education in Australia, whilst being cognizant of the wider international landscape. Separate educational provision is increasing in many countries, including Australia. Inclusive education has plateaued to a degree with demand increasing for non-inclusive settings. There are three main…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Special Education, Foreign Countries
Tibbitts, Felisa L. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
Fostering cohesion and acceptance amidst a plurality of cultures and values is a clear context for quality education and also for PVE. This article proposes that deliberative democratic decision making (DDD) can result in agreements on (quasi-universal) values that accommodate both the claims of universal values--including human rights--and…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Democracy, Cultural Pluralism, Conflict Resolution
Sadruddin, Munir Moosa – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
Pakistan is home to religious and cultural ideologies that greatly support the values of human rights. Nevertheless, the multilayered philosophies of human rights in Pakistan have at times heightened clashes and bred a culture of tension among higher education learners. Ideological filters in national education policies have removed human rights…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Global Education, Faculty Development
Comings, John P.; Strucker, John; Bell, Brenda – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
This article describes two assessment tools that have been used to assess the reading skills of youth participating in alternative basic skills and livelihood skills training programs. The Rapid Assessment of Reading Skills (RARS) was developed to identify potential participants who needed to improve their reading skills before beginning training…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Reading Skills, Daily Living Skills
Mukerji, Shalini – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
An idea took shape in the slums of Mumbai in the early nineties and went on to become a peoples' movement to address the problem of providing quality education for all of India's children. This piece profiles Dr. Madhav Chavan, the man who provided the dynamic vision for and creative leadership of that mission/movement. Dr. Chavan combined the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slums, Access to Education, Low Income Groups
Comings, John P. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
The world community committed to support universal access to basic education in 1990. Since then, schools have been built and teachers hired and trained. Twenty years later, many more students were in primary school, but learning assessments showed that most were not learning how to read well enough to use reading to learn. The world community…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods