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Direct linkRichter, Linda M.; Tomlinson, Mark; Watt, Kathryn; Hunt, Xanthe; Lindland, Eric H. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
Scientific and policy advances are putting early childhood development (ECD) at the center of efforts to improve human development. This study was undertaken to understand what knowledge and attitudinal barriers exist that 25 hinder the full-scale roll-out of services for the youngest children and their families. We used anthropological methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Young Children, Public Opinion
Biao, Idowu; Esaete, Josephine; Oonyu, Joseph – International Review of Education, 2013
Although Africa has been home to famous ancient cities in the past, its modern conurbation areas are poor living spaces characterised by squalor, poor planning and human misery. The authors of this paper argue that the learning city concept, still almost unknown in Africa, holds enormous potential for redressing the dysfunctional state of things…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Educational Environment, Urban Planning
Luneta, Kakoma, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This book represents a crop of wide-ranging research conducted by renown scholars in sub-Sahara Africa revolving around mathematics teaching and professional development programs for mathematics teachers. The research-based proposals and actual how-to-conduct professional development initiatives that enhance effective mathematics instruction are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Manipulative Materials, Visualization
Ben-David, Brenda; Nel, Norma – Africa Education Review, 2013
Children with visible physical disabilities (CWPDs) living in rural areas of South Africa are a matter of particular concern. While all children living in rural areas face negative influences such as poverty and the high incidence of HIV/AIDS, this situation is exacerbated for CWPDs who are more vulnerable to these influences (Human Sciences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Models, Influences
Leibowitz, Brenda – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
The study presents a framework for investigating the powerful resources within learners' educational biographies, which, from their own accounts, appear to influence their engagement with teaching and learning practices. The research framework stresses the material, social and cultural influences on a learner's biography and the need for…
Descriptors: Interviews, Biographies, Cultural Influences, College Faculty
Nemeth, Balazs, Ed.; Poggeler, Franz, Ed. – 2002
This book, which focuses on how personality, societal values and politics have influenced the mission of adult education, contains 34 papers originally presented at a 2000 conference on the history of adult education. Following a Foreword (Poggeler) and Preface (Nemeth) the papers are: "The Globalization of Adult Education and the One World…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agricultural Education, Andragogy
