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Iyengar, Radhika; Shin, Haein – Prospects, 2022
Contextual and social realities must be built into any educational program for activism to take place. This case study examines an education and environment program which has adapted to the social distancing measures of COVID-19, resulting in an even more community-reliant and community-driven program than the program designers initially intended.…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Environmental Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Iyengar, Radhika – Prospects, 2021
COVID-19 has put education in a challenging place. With millions of children out of school, education needs to reinvent itself. During the pandemic, communities have used this opportunity to support children's education in various ways, including the launching of new online classes. This article takes the social capital theoretical model as its…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Capital
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Iyengar, Radhika – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
COVID-19 has disrupted education for millions of children across the globe. The education community is re-imagining and re-designing to build back better. This Viewpoint takes the principles behind UNESCO's Futures of Education initiative to highlight their importance in post-COVID-19 recovery. The pandemic has shown how communities can come…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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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