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Jacob Nunoo; Alexander Opoku; Michael Coffie; Elizabeth Nsenkyire; John Mefful – Cogent Education, 2024
The persistent skills gap in Africa poses a significant barrier to both economic growth and individual career advancement. While cognitive skills (CS) are well-recognized for their crucial role in enhancing employability, non-cognitive skills (NCS) have received less attention, especially in African labour markets. This systematic review examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Labor Market
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Hammad, Waheed; Hallinger, Philip – School Leadership & Management, 2017
This review of research analyzed topics, conceptual models and research methods employed in 62 EDLM studies from Arab societies published between 2000 and 2016. Systematic review methods were used to identify relevant studies published in nine core international EDLM journals. Quantitative analyses identified patterns within this set of Arab…
Descriptors: Models, Research Methodology, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis
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Asuga, Gladys Nyanchama; Scevak, Jill; Eacott, Scott – School Leadership & Management, 2016
Over the past two decades, there have been calls by scholars for a more concerted effort to develop empirically grounded research studies on educational leadership management and administration in an indigenous context rather than hegemonic western contexts. This paper presents a review of contemporary literature on educational leadership from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Educational Administration, Governance
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Orakci, Senol; Aktan, Osman; Toraman, Çetin; Çevik, Hüseyin – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
Inclusive education practices on special education are quite important and discussed intensively. Within this context, teachers' viewpoints and attitudes towards inclusive education practices are of great importance. There are many publications about special education practices in the literature review. In this article, it has been focused on…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Gender Differences, Teacher Attitudes
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Conn, Katharine M. – Review of Educational Research, 2017
In this article, I identify educational interventions with an impact on student learning in Sub-Saharan Africa. After a systematic literature search, I conducted a meta-analysis synthesizing 56 articles containing 66 separate experiments and quasi-experiments and 83 treatment arms. I evaluated 12 types of education interventions such as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Meta Analysis
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Nyoni, J. – Africa Education Review, 2012
This article reports on a critical meta-analysis of empirical studies done by human sciences researchers on the initial multicultural teacher education (IMTE) models in multicultural post-colonial transitional societies with reference to sub-Saharan African states in general and South Africa in particular. Using a critical post-positivist…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Meta Analysis, Synthesis, Multiracial Persons
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Khan, Faryal – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
In this review the author explores whether school management councils (SMCs) reproduce prevailing norms of social participation or serve as a lever for change by challenging these norms and creating opportunities for subdominant groups to participate, thus enabling parents to take part in decision-making. The analysis highlights examples from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Administration, Social Influences, School Councils
Katseli, Louka T.; Lucas, Robert E. B.; Xenogiani, Theodora – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This report evaluates the evidence on how migration may promote or hinder development in countries of origin, and explores possible win-win solutions for both sending and receiving countries. The analysis of recent OECD data of foreign-born nationals into Europe documents the presence of multiple migration patterns and reveals that the EU lags…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Migration Patterns, Human Resources