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Direct linkRose, Pauline; Sabates, Ricardo; Delprato, Marcos; Alcott, Ben – Comparative Education Review, 2022
In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, key barriers to girls' secondary school access and learning include poverty, school inaccessibility, poor school quality, and lack of gender-sensitive practices in the classroom. The nongovernmental organization, Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), provides a range of financial, pedagogical, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Equal Education
Langsten, Ray – Comparative Education Review, 2014
The Education Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education (UPE) states that "by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling." The 2008 midterm Global Monitoring Report claims that "A country's distance from UPE appears most clearly in terms of the net…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Equal Education, Enrollment, Graduation Rate
Spaull, Nicholas; Taylor, Stephen – Comparative Education Review, 2015
The aim of the current study is to create a composite statistic of educational quantity and educational quality by combining household data (Demographic and Health Survey) on grade completion and survey data (Southern and Eastern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality) on cognitive outcomes for 11 African countries: Kenya, Lesotho,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Institutional Evaluation, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
Dejaeghere, Joan; Wiger, Nancy Pellowski; Willemsen, Laura Wangsness – Comparative Education Review, 2016
This article argues that, if a global development aim is to address educational inequalities, the post-2015 agenda needs to conceptually and practically broaden the focus of learning to include social relations as important processes and outcomes for achieving educational equity. We draw on Sen's capability approach and Bourdieu's forms of capital…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Well Being, Interpersonal Relationship, Skill Development
Phillips, Kristin D. – Comparative Education Review, 2013
Since the 1940s, the concept of community participation has framed, mobilized, and legitimated national development agendas in the Singida Region of rural central Tanzania. Based on 19 months of ethnographic and archival research, this study examines the forms of community participation elicited through state and international development…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Educational Development
Peer reviewedStites, Regie; Semali, Ladislaus – Comparative Education Review, 1991
The current economic development orientation of rural adult literacy education policy in China and Tanzania represents a break with earlier socialist commitments to social equity. These parallel policy shifts in China and Tanzania have been influenced by diverse political and economic factors, both internal and external. Contains 36 references.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Education
