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Jass, Harpreet Kaur; Khatoon, Sabeena – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
This article discusses the role of the community in the development of socio-economically marginalised children. There are several government schemes and civil society efforts for their upliftment. There is further need to critically analyse researches done with a distinct political stance which either seek to manage the marginalised or to…
Descriptors: Community Role, Minority Groups, Low Income Groups, Foreign Countries
A. K. Shiva Kumar; Ramya Subrahmanian; Valeria Groppo; Josiah Kaplan; Anna Zongollowicz; Gabrielle Menezes; Celina Myrann Sørbøe – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2024
Global progress in child labour reduction has stalled since 2016. In South Asia, the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, recurrent extreme weather events and the cost-of-living crisis further threaten to slow or even reverse the progress made. This synthesis report addresses a timely need for new research to help decision-makers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Intervention, Prevention
K. G. Santhya; A. J. Francis Zavier; Basant Kumar Panda; Neelanjana Pandey; Shilpi Rampal; Valeria Groppo; A. K. Shiva Kumar – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2024
India has made rapid progress towards the universalization of school education, hand in hand with a decline in child labour. Despite progress, child labour persists in the country, just as school attendance and completion rates reveal gaps in educational attainment. This report addresses a timely need for new research to help decision-makers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Educational Attainment, Role of Education
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Kurian, Nomisha – Journal of Peace Education, 2020
There is a dearth of research on the frustrations, moral dilemmas and challenges non-Western teachers might face in the everyday praxis of peace education. To address this gap, this study analyses how violence is negotiated and understood in an Indian school seeking to build a culture of peace. Interviews with eight teachers and four students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Violence, School Culture
Li, Tianshu; Sekhri, Sheetal – World Bank, 2020
Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to study the effects on…
Descriptors: Employment, Poverty, Child Labor, Human Capital
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Chakraborty, Suchita – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2016
Secondary education has been a relatively neglected area in India, both at the level of policy and research. Statistical data at the secondary level of education reveals a bleak picture in terms of enrolment and completion rates. This article explores the underlying reasons for the dismal scenario at the secondary level of education by situating…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Secondary Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries