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Heila Lotz-Sisitka; Simon McGrath; Presha Ramsarup – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
In this paper, drawing on an extensive research project across three countries (VET Africa 4.0 Collective 2023), we produce an emerging argument that it is necessary to rethink and reframe VET logics and approaches in a warming future dominated by informality and mass unemployment. Currently, neither the formal VET college or workplace are…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Climate, Ecology, Political Issues
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Waluyo, Budi; Eng, Sothy; Wiseman, Alexander W. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of international scholarship programs for social justice -- a case study of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP), the first model of scholarships for social justice. The human capability approach advanced by Amartya Sen is selected to conceptualize the measurement of the…
Descriptors: Models, Scholarship, Social Justice, Fellowships
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Madikizela-Madiya, Nomanesi – Transformation in Higher Education, 2021
Background: The discussions related to access in higher education collate enrolment with the provision of education. Yet, when considering what the university education should provide, some enrolments still restrict capabilities, freedom and rights to quality education. The article argues that the debates regarding access to higher education are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Student Rights
Mirka Martel – Institute of International Education, 2019
The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP), implemented from 2001-2013, was an international fellowship program based on a uniquely inclusive higher education model. Founded on the principle that higher education is an essential long-term investment for addressing major social issues, IFP had two essential goals: ensuring…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Justice, Social Change, International Programs
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Novelli, Mario; Sayed, Yusuf – Education as Change, 2016
This paper presents a "peace with social justice" framework for analysing the role of teachers as agents of sustainable peace, social cohesion and development and applies this to research evidence from Pakistan, Uganda, Myanmar and South Africa. The paper draws on evidence from a recently completed UNICEF and ESRC funded project on…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Teacher Role, Peace, Governance