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Direct linkBarrett, Angeline M. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
This think piece focuses on relevance in secondary science education to propose a research agenda for contexts in sub-Saharan Africa, where enrolments are expanding from a low base. The notion of sustainable work is used to consider what kind of science education is relevant for students who will continue to become science specialists and those…
Descriptors: Science Education, Relevance (Education), Reflection, Equal Education
Download full textBarrett, Angeline M.; Sørensen, Tore Bernt – Open Society Foundations, 2015
This paper sets out to reclaim rights-based thinking on for the current proposals for the education Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The proposed indicators are intended to contribute to a broad and bold agenda for education quality compatible with the targets set out in two proposals for a post-2015 education goals -- the Muscat Agreement…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Sayed, Yusuf; Sprague, Terra; Turner, David; Smith, Alan; Paulson, Julia; Shields, Robin; Shrestha, Purna Kumar; Unterhalter, Elaine; Vaughan, Rosie Peppin; Smail, Amy; Tungaraza, Frida; Sutherland, Margaret; Stack, Niamah; Barrett, Angeline M.; Bunwaree, Vasant K.; Alhawsawi, Sajjad; Hanna, Helen; Soudien, Crain; Motivans, Albert – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
As the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, there are a growing number of processes, preparations and debates on what a post-2015 agenda and framework will look like. The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) (as chaired by the United Nations Development Programme) is leading the planning of efforts…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Barrett, Angeline M.; Bainton, David – Comparative Education, 2016
The 2030 education goal privileges "relevant learning outcomes" as the evaluative space for quality improvement. Whilst the goal was designed for global level monitoring, its influence cuts across different scales. Implementation of the goal involves reinterpreting "relevant learning" at the local level. One way that small…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Global Approach, Secondary School Students, African Languages
Tikly, Leon; Barrett, Angeline M. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
The paper sets out a theoretical approach for understanding the quality of education in low income countries from a social justice perspective. The paper outlines and critiques the two dominant approaches that currently frame the debate about education quality, namely, the human capital and human rights approaches. Drawing principally on the ideas…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Human Capital, Low Income, Democracy
Barrett, Angeline M.; Crossley, Michael; Dachi, Hillary A. – Comparative Education, 2011
Research capacity building and its impact on policy and practice are increasingly highlighted in the literature on international research partnerships. In the field of education and development, it is recognised that, in the past, international research collaborations have tended to be dominated by the agenda of Northern partners. Partly in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, International Cooperation, Development, Consortia
Smith, Michele; Barrett, Angeline M. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
This paper considers what multilevel modelling approaches to analysing large scale cross-national surveys of education quality can tell us about the capabilities that support primary school children in learning to read. The impact of pupil background characteristics on achievement in reading towards the end of the primary cycle in sub-Saharan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Status, Low Income, Grade 6
