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Kelly, Anthony – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2012
There are few more widely applied terms in common parlance than "capability". It is used (inaccurately) to represent everything from the aspiration to provide opportunity to notions of innate academic ability, with everything in between claiming apostolic succession to Amartya Sen, who (with apologies to Aristotle) first developed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Ability, School Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Asayehgn, Desta – 1979
Using the theory of correspondence and contradiction, the author analyzes the interaction between socioeconomic and educational changes in Ethiopia from 1942 to 1974. An introductory section sets forth the principles of correspondence and contradiction, which refer to how the means of economic production determine conditions in the noneconomic…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Activism, Dropout Rate