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Download full textVasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Mendez, María-Eugenia; Valdez-Jiménez, Liliana; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Fonseca-Ramirez, Oscar-Hernan; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodriguez-Ramirez, Sergio-Esteban; Alvarez-Gomez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesus; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Needs, Educational Change, Latin Americans
Direct linkStrasser, Katherine; Rolla, Andrea; Romero-Contreras, Silvia – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Educational results in Latin America (LA) are well below those of developed countries. One factor that influences how well children do at school is school readiness. In this article, we review studies conducted in LA on the readiness skills of preschool children. We begin by discussing contextual factors that affect what is expected of children…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, School Readiness, Preschool Children, Oral Language
Comyn, Paul John – International Journal of Training Research, 2018
This paper considers the inclusion of TVET and skills in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and analyses the key changes likely to impact on TVET and skill systems from now until 2030. It argues that despite SDG implementation and monitoring challenges, the new emphasis on TVET, skills and lifelong learning will reinforce efforts of…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Vocational Education, Job Skills, Employment Potential
Standish, Alex – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
This article charts social and economic transformation in the developing world over recent decades by drawing on a number of different secondary data sources. I propose that this rapid change means that we need to re-think the teaching of development in the curriculum to move beyond a polarised view of developed versus developing. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Economic Development, Social Development
Nilsen, Ann Christin E. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
The provision of early childhood development services is expanding in developing countries. The rationale behind this expansion is rooted in developmental psychology, socio-economic and human rights narratives. However, there are some limitations to this rationale, which are in particular related to the implicit universalism it assumes. This…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evidence, Developing Nations, Intervention
Chua, Kenn – European Journal of Education, 2017
Using novel adult skills surveys, this article analyses cross-country patterns in skill achievement and labour market returns, comparing the outcomes for a subset of developing countries with the results previously found for high-income economies. Apart from displaying lower average cognitive skills, developing countries also exhibit wider…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Adults, Skills
Ackerman, Xanthe Scharff; Scott, Kaitlyn – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
After more than 25 years of research on girls' education, it is widely accepted among economists that investing in this area is one of, if not the most, effective development interventions. This research, as well as global advocacy and recent world events--including Malala Yousafzai winning the Nobel Peace Prize and the #Bringbackourgirls campaign…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Females, Gender Differences, Educational Finance
OECD Publishing, 2017
The PISA for Development (PISA-D) project aims to make PISA more accessible and relevant to middle- and low-income countries by introducing new features to the assessment, including tests that are specially designed to measure lower levels of performance, contextual questionnaires that better reflect the situations of 15-year-olds across a diverse…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Moradi Sheykhjan, Tohid – Online Submission, 2015
Education as a phenomenon is rather complex which makes it difficult to define its quality. Definitions of quality must be open to change and evolution based on information, changing contexts, and new understandings of the nature of education's challenges. The main objective of the paper is to find out the significance of quality education for…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Social Development, Well Being, Developing Nations
Williams Goodrich, Lisa – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2019
The aim of this article is to direct the social design debate to constructivist approaches to design education in the Global South. This article provides insight into the process of participatory user-centred design involving Ecuadorian third year graphic design students and cocoa cultivators of limited resources in Ecuador. The students and…
Descriptors: Design, Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods, Graphic Arts
Whitaker, Simon – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2018
The European Union has seen an increased number of asylum seekers and economic migrants over the past few years. There will be request to assess some of these individuals to see if they have an intellectual disability (ID). If this is to be done using the current internationally recognized definitions of ID, we will need to be confident that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Ability, Intellectual Disability
Mawoyo, Monica; Vally, Zaahedah – Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
Fifty-three percent of Grade 4 learners cannot read for meaning in low- and middle-income countries despite an investment of between 33-49% of education expenditure on primary education. Teaching children to read in the early grades is fundamental to building resilient education systems, as the ability to read early in life is a great predictor…
Descriptors: Outcome Based Education, Outcomes of Education, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills
Siergiejczyk, Galina – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2020
While technology-assisted learning has become commonplace in education, its applications are rarely examined along geopolitical and cultural perspectives that reveal certain shared and vastly distinct localized practices in evolving pedagogy and cultural dynamics. For developing countries such as Uzbekistan, collaborating virtually with a…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Virtual Classrooms, Online Courses, Technology Integration
Kaur, Sarabjit – Online Submission, 2020
Free and compulsory primary education remains a priority area in the international policy perspective, starting from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 to the formulation of Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Under the impact of globalization, an impressive expansion in the access to primary education has been observed in recent…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Sustainable Development, Objectives
Alemu, Birhanu Moges – African Educational Research Journal, 2017
Despite the improvements in the access to and use of information and communication technology (ICT) around the world, there is evidence which suggest that a persistent digital divide between and within countries. ICT increases the flexibility of delivery of education so that learners can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere. It can influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Knowledge Economy
