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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread school closures globally, including in Kenya. This educational disruption had potential adverse consequences for adolescent school learners including school dropout, learning loss, opportunity losses, loss of previously acquired skills, and loss of socio-emotional benefits of time spent with peers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Well Being
Mosquera, Selma, Ed.; da Palma, Patrícia Jardim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2020
Interest in the field of entrepreneurship is at an all-time high; coincidentally, migration is increasingly changing the landscape of employment. Many migrants find themselves facing challenges that entrepreneurial skills can help overcome. However, little remains explored within adult migrant education, especially within enterprises.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Immigrants, Access to Education, Adult Education
Sperling, Gene B.; Winthrop, Rebecca – Brookings Institution Press, 2015
Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls' education. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any child could be denied an education due to…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Equal Education, Economic Factors
Download full textMongeon, Rebecca, Ed.; Tambascio, Donna, Ed. – Wellesley Centers for Women, 2008
The "Research & Action Report," published twice a year, describes the latest activities and initiatives at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW). Typically featured are: news about the Centers, interviews with researchers, commentary on recent events or social trends affecting women and girls, announcements of new publications, and much more.…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Equal Education, Females, Interviews
Wisker, Gina – 1996
This book focuses on enabling and empowering women in higher education, and it draws both on research and experience with women-centered teaching and learning practices and professional development and training of women staff. The first section of the book concentrates on women students in higher education. Chapters include: "Women Students and…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Research, Educational Environment
Murphy-Graham, Erin – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
This article is not about local governance of education "per se," but rather whether education can be used as a tool to foster citizen participation, particularly that of women. It examines how education might empower women, who are often excluded from local, regional and national governance, to participate in public life. It draws on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Females, Secondary Education
