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Direct linkAndrew Ebekozien; Clinton Aigbavboa; Mohamed Ahmed Hafez Ahmed; Mohamad Shaharudin Samsurijan; John Ogbeleakhu Aliu; Matthew Ikuabe; Angeline Ngozika Chibuike Nwaole – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: Studies have shown that research is a global innovation's "engine room." Therefore, young adult-built environment researchers (YABER), especially in developing countries, need research upskilling and reskilling training for better-integrated outcomes. Evidence shows that research training can improve YABER competencies and…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Young Adults, Researchers, Developing Nations
VANDerpuye, Irene; Okai, Martha-Pearl – Support for Learning, 2023
This study explores challenges confronting teachers in using assistive technologies (ATs) in inclusive schools. Data was retrieved from ten teachers in the Western Region of Ghana. Thematic analysis, with the aid of NVivo 12, revealed that teachers think ATs are costly and difficult to maintain. Alongside poor resources, the combined effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Inclusion, Assistive Technology
Clarke, Marie; Liddy, Margaret; Raftery, Deirdre; Ferris, Ruth; Sloan, Seaneen – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
This article, emerging from a wider study on the professional development needs of women teachers working in Catholic convent schools in the Republic of Pakistan, explores the perspectives and experiences of school leaders and Principals who developed professional development programmes. This area, which has been under-researched in the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Catholic Schools, Females, Catholic Educators
Download full textPant, Hema – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2019
The North East Region of the country is unique due to its socio-cultural features, geopolitical factors, and abundant untapped natural resources. However, despite being endowed with such uniqueness, the region remains underdeveloped, backward and alienated from the mainland. Since its inception, Indira Gandhi National Open University registered…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Developing Nations
Owen, Susanne; White, Gerald; Palekahelu, Dharmaputra T.; Sumakul, Dian Toar Y. G.; Sekiyono, Eko – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2020
Aim/Purpose: ICT integration into classroom pedagogical practices is considered an essential aspect of learning processes in developed countries but there are issues in developing countries regarding funding, infrastructure, access, and teacher skills and professional learning. This article presents some aspects of the findings of a study in one…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Technology Integration, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Ataei, Pouria; Ghadermarzi, Hamed; Karimi, Hamid; Norouzi, Arash – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2020
Purpose: The present descriptive-analytical study aimed to rank the barriers of the application of the value chain in the context of rural entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach: The statistical population was composed of 125 entrepreneurs from the provinces of Tehran, Hamedan, and Golestan, Iran. Data were analyzed by the TOPSIS technique.…
Descriptors: Barriers, Entrepreneurship, Rural Development, Foreign Countries
Vasquez-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
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
Enabling Pedagogic Reform in the Maldives: Implications for Translating Policy into Teacher Practice
Di Biase, Rhonda – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
For education reform to move beyond policy rhetoric and find a place in teachers' practice, the critical role of teachers must be acknowledged. Moving beyond a focus on the "what" of educational reform to the "how", this study explores the enabling conditions for implementing learner-centred education in the Maldives. Using…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Theory Practice Relationship
Dintoe, Seitebaleng Susan – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2019
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence adoption and diffusion of information and communication technology in developing countries through a thorough review of past and current literature, focusing on the case of University of Botswana. Despite the value in adoption and diffusion of technology innovation in the developing…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Foreign Countries
Global Partnership for Education, 2019
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) supports close to 70 developing countries to ensure that every child receives a quality education. The featured stories in this report show the progress that developing country partners are making in getting more children, especially girls, in school and learning. The results are not only evidence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Educational Practices, Educational Improvement
McCloskey, Stephen – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
This book argues that the international development sector is in crisis which can be mostly sourced to its side-stepping the dominant development question of our age, the neoliberal growth paradigm. It argues that this crisis can be addressed, at least in part, by the sector's re-engagement with the radical development education process that it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Capacity Building, Educational Development
Teklehaimanot, Mebrahtu L.; Ingenbleek, Paul T. M.; Tessema, Workneh K.; van Trijp, Hans C. M. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2017
In recent years, marketing education has broadened to poor people in developing and emerging countries. In this article, the authors use four empirical studies that apply well-established training design procedures to design a marketing training program for Ethiopian pastoralists. Because pastoralists operate in extremely remote, traditional, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marketing, Business Administration Education, Instructional Design
Vegas, Emiliana; Winthrop, Rebecca – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2020
Analysis in mid-April 2020--in the early throes of the pandemic--found that less than 25 percent of low-income countries were providing any type of remote learning, while close to 90 percent of high-income countries were. On top of cross-country differences in access to remote learning, within-country differences are also staggering. For example,…
Descriptors: Global Education, Educational Change, Distance Education, COVID-19
Thompson, Paul – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
This paper contests the proposal that learner-centred education (LCE) may simply be a western construct, irrelevant to the current educational needs of developing countries, by arguing that its specific forms will be more effective when introduced through small-scale institutional relationships than through large-scale contracts with national…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Cultural Differences, Student Centered Curriculum, Developing Nations
