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Kral, Inge; Schwab, R. G. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
If young adults in remote Indigenous Australian communities are to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to participate effectively in mature roles in their own and the wider community, then educators will need to pay attention not only to the provision of schooling and formal adult-literacy tuition, but also to how language, literacy, and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy
Kalman, Judy; Reyes, Iliana – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
In this article, we explore the meanings of literacy, and more specifically of reading, in the Mexican context from a sociocultural perspective and as a social practice, underlining the technologies, competence, knowledge, beliefs, and values that permeate literacy use. We consider the historical, cultural, and multilingual specificities of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Disadvantaged, Mexicans
Negassa, Tolera; Rogers, Alan; Warkineh, Turuwark Zalalam – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article explores whether looking at adult literacy teaching through the lens of Lave and Wenger's "community of practice" approach to learning provides useful additional insights into adults learning to read, especially the role of the adult literacy facilitator. Using some case studies of facilitators from the Ethiopian Integrated…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Literacy Education, Adult Literacy, Technological Literacy
Chudgar, Amita; Chandra, Madhur; Iyengar, Radhika; Shanker, Rishikesh – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
In addition to basic infrastructure, what school resources are important to improve learning? This question is hard to answer due to lack of availability of appropriate data. Collaboration between researchers at US universities and a large, well-established educational foundation in India enabled this study to overcome the challenge of data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Educational Resources, Academic Achievement
Yudkevich, Maria; Altbach, Philip G.; Rumbley, Laura E. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Global university rankings are often thought of as games, defined by roles and rules that universities must play in order to confirm their legitimacy and gain visibility as actors in the global academic market. While some countries are well represented at the top of rankings charts, others are just joining the race and testing out different…
Descriptors: Universities, Classification, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis
Wiger, Nancy Pellowski; Chapman, David W.; Baxter, Aryn; DeJaeghere, Joan – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Government and development organizations are increasingly turning to entrepreneurship training programmes as a means of assisting those caught in poverty to develop the skills needed to find or create employment. Drawing on case studies from East Africa, this article argues that while such programmes offer a potentially useful strategy for…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Disadvantaged Youth, Poverty, Skill Development
De Stercke, Joachim; Goyette, Nancy; Robertson, Jean E. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This Viewpoint proposes a new perspective on why so many teachers leave the profession after only a very short time. While existing studies have largely focused on employment and working conditions, this essay argues that happiness is key to keeping new teachers in the workplace. Juxtaposing two fields that have heretofore been oblivious of one…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Psychology, Educational Strategies, Job Satisfaction
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Arcia, Gustavo; Macdonald, Kevin – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article contrasts policy intent and policy implementation in school autonomy and accountability. The analysis uses a conceptual framework based on the interaction between school autonomy, student assessment, and accountability as elements of a closed system. The article analyzes the implementation of school autonomy and accountability policy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Policy
McGinn, Noel F.; Schiefelbein, Ernesto – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Reading before class has been demonstrated to improve student learning. This article describes the installation and effectiveness of a strategy to encourage student class preparation. The strategy, called the Class-to-Class Method, has been implemented in a large private university in Chile. The university hopes that this innovation will reduce…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Innovation, Educational Strategies, Study Habits
Bray, Mark; Kobakhidze, Magda Nutsa – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
An established literature draws on ecological concepts to analyze interrelationships within education structures and processes, and the impact of shifting balances. Private supplementary tutoring--relatively new in ecosystems of education around the world--is creating significant changes in relationships, particularly as they concern teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Tutors, Individual Instruction
Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Klees, Steven J. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
While participation has for decades been a buzzword in development, the term has been imbued with greatly different meanings depending on the perspective of the actor in question. We attempt to clarify these meanings by presenting a tripartite framework. This framework delineates the tenets and strategies of three overarching and complementary…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Governance, Educational Development, Participation
Regmi, Kapil Dev – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Amidst growing criticisms of global financial institutions, primarily the World Bank, this article explores their influence on educational programme planning in some of the impoverished nations known as the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The domination of these institutions originates not only from their monetary power but also from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, International Organizations, Educational Planning
Bogachenko, Tatiana; Perry, Laura – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article examines the pedagogical dimension of vospitanie, or character formation, in communist and post-communist education. It explores how vospitanie is conceptualized in two teacher-education textbooks--one from each period--in Ukraine, a post-Soviet country. Comparative analysis shows how conceptualizations of vospitanie have evolved over…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Change, Teacher Education, Textbooks
Astiz, M. Fernanda – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This exploratory comparative case study examines three schools in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires that have a considerable number of recent immigrant students. The article illustrates how these schools advance ideas of inclusiveness and pluralism through the curriculum and educational opportunities, as mandated by the national education law of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Institutional Mission, Inservice Teacher Education
Alexander, Vivian; Maeda, Yukiko – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This study aims to disentangle the complex relationships among student attributes, school context, and student performance in mathematics and science in Trinidad and Tobago, using the PISA 2009 data. Our findings reveal that schools account for a substantial amount of variation in students' mathematics and science performances. School…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Case Studies, Socioeconomic Status