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Skårås, Merethe; Breidlid, Anders – Education as Change, 2016
This article analyses the teaching and learning of South Sudan history from 1955--2005 in secondary schools in South Sudan with a specific focus on national unity. The article draws on two periods of focused ethnography, from September to December 2014 and July to September 2015, including classroom observation and interviews with teachers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Secondary Schools, History Instruction
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Zhao, Dan; Barakat, Bilal – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2015
In the early 2000s, China's Ministry of Education embarked on a program of school mapping restructure (SMR) that involved closing small rural schools and opening up larger centralized schools in towns and county seats.The stated aim of the policy was to improve educational resources and raise the human capital of rural students. Any progress that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, School Closing, School Location
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McCartney, Holly; Harris, Teresa – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
International experiences offer new settings for revisiting, revising, and reconstructing currently held images of the child. Specifically, international practicum experiences can provide preservice teachers with opportunities to reflect on their views about children by positioning themselves as "the other." The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Children, Practicums