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Kaur, Ashmeet – Cogent Education, 2023
The article attempts to understand the concept of peace through the prism of social realities. The central argument deconstructs violence and peace as a variable of social distance. Consequently, social interactions become the mechanism of inequalities to underscore how asymmetries of power restructure the social distance. However, interactions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Violence, Interpersonal Relationship
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Zhao, Dan; Barakat, Bilal – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2015
In the early 2000s, China's Ministry of Education embarked on a program of school mapping restructure (SMR) that involved closing small rural schools and opening up larger centralized schools in towns and county seats.The stated aim of the policy was to improve educational resources and raise the human capital of rural students. Any progress that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, School Closing, School Location