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Parkes, Jenny – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article examines how policies and strategies to address school-related gender-based violence have evolved since 2000, when gender-based violence within education was largely invisible. Through an exploration of policy enactment in three countries--Liberia, South Africa, and Brazil--it traces remarkable progress in policy, programmes, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Sex, Educational Policy
Psaki, Stephanie – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
A girl's success in school--and after leaving school--is determined in part by the characteristics of and factors in her household and community. Many policies and programmes are based on an assumption that early marriage and adolescent pregnancy hamper continued progress toward gender equality in education. While education and age at marriage and…
Descriptors: Marriage, Pregnancy, Early Parenthood, Children
Channa, Anila – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Policymakers have increasingly advocated decentralization as a way of enhancing educational quality, although its potential in this area is still subject to debate. This article traces the impetus and popularity of the reform as a policy solution over the past few decades. It argues that three trends in particular have characterized the post-2000…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
Desjardins, Richard; Melo, Veriene; Lee, Jeongwoo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Using comparative data, this article examines the level and distribution of participation in adult education (AE) opportunities among countries that participated in PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies). It considers observed cross-country patterns in relation to some mechanisms that drive unequal chances to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Participation, Educational Policy
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
Street, Brian – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This paper looks at some issues around "learning to read" from the viewpoint of a social practice concept of literacy for both child and adult literacy. This calls for an ethnographic approach that, although increasingly common in the field of adult literacy, is less common in the policy and practice of schooling; there, a more…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education
Renganathan, Sumathi – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article explores the literacy practices of the indigenous Semai Orang Asli community in Malaysia. Literacy for the Orang Asli often centres on formal education and schooling and is hardly explored from a social and cultural perspective. In fact, researchers have paid barely any attention to Orang Asli oral and literate traditions nor their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Literacy
McCaffery, Juliet – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article questions the western model of education as suitable for everyone. Having taught for many years, the purpose of education was always clear to me: children and adults needed literacy and education in order to operate in a modern society. My research, carried out in England between 2004 and 2011 on Gypsies' and Travellers' experiences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Indigenous Populations
Bloome, David; Kim, Minjeong – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
The argument here is that learning to read for young people in school is not a monolithic process but, rather, consists of multiple and differentiated pathways involving the acquisition of diverse reading practices and cultural ideologies embedded in a broad range of social and cultural contexts. Such a view of learning to read entails…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Reading Instruction, Beginning Reading, Reading Processes
Soler, Janet – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Historically, political debates have broken out over how to teach reading in primary schools and infant classrooms. These debates and "reading wars" have often resulted from public concerns and media reportage of a fall in reading standards. They also reflect the importance placed on learning to read by parents, teachers, employers, and…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, News Reporting
da Silva, Elizabeth Maria; Castanheira, Maria Lúcia – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article examines how literate actions of reading texts in academic contexts are characterized in semi-structured interviews with first-year and senior students at a Brazilian federal university. Adopting a social perspective of literacy and an ethnographic perspective, the analysis reveals that the literate action of reading texts is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Processes, Reading Attitudes
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
Abadzi, Helen – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Reading programs for low-income populations often give disappointing results. Failures may be partly due to a neglect of practice in decoding letters. Visual stimuli are best learned symbol by symbol, with pattern analogies and much practice to unite smaller components and speed up identification. The prerequisite for comprehending volumes of text…
Descriptors: Poverty, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Reading Programs
Cheffy, Ian; McCaffery, Juliet; Street, Brian – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Apart from a few brief intervals, adult literacy has remained low on the development agenda. This article details the contribution of the British Association for Literacy in Development (BALID), a voluntary association based in the UK, to highlighting the importance of literacy in development and, in particular, the importance of reading and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, National Organizations
Gregory, Eve – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
How children learn to read is a controversial matter. Since the teaching of literacy has always been a major purpose of schooling, pedagogy and teaching methods have generally framed research and practice. Psychologists and linguists have played a major role in determining what we mean by "literacy learning". Although they disagree on…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Sociocultural Patterns