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Direct linkJepkemboi, Grace; Jolly, Pauline; Gillyard, KaNesha; Lissanu, Lydia – Childhood Education, 2016
According to UNICEF, 13.3 million children (0-17 years) worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Nearly 12 million of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa. Together, with other children who have been severely impacted by the AIDS pandemic, these orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) are at higher risk of missing out on schooling,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Youth, Institutionalized Persons
Oduro, Georgina Yaa; Swartz, Sharlene; Arnot, Madeleine – Theory and Research in Education, 2012
Using a social ecological approach (Bronfenbrenner) to violence and including Hobsbawm's historical analysis of the collective uses of violence, this article shows how gender-based violence is experienced and used. Drawing on three distinct studies in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, it shows the commonalities and divergence of young people's…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Foreign Countries, Young Adults
Nyambedha, Erick Otieno; Aagaard-Hansen, Jens – Educational Studies, 2010
During the past decades, many developing countries have been severely hit by a combination of poverty and the HIV pandemic. However, there has been a debate about the relative contribution of these two factors. This study showed that poverty and orphanhood were two separate but interrelated factors contributing to poor schooling. There were no…
Descriptors: Poverty, Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Educationally Disadvantaged
Download full textLewin, Keith M.; Sabates, Ricardo – Online Submission, 2011
This paper explores patterns of growth in participation in six Anglophone and seven Francophone countries in SSA. The countries are Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Madagascar, Mali, Niger and Senegal. These countries all have large scale Universal Primary Education programmes and all have…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Oonge, Harrison Ntabo – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined how teachers perceive Free Primary Education had influenced access, retention and progression of marginalized students in primary schools in Kisii County, Kenya. A critical pedagogy framework was used to unpack and shed light on teacher and school practices that affected access to basic education of at risk students. Data was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Elementary School Teachers, Academic Persistence
Blanc, Cristina S. – 1992
This publication presents a discussion of the status of poor urban children world-wide and the design of a five-nation study of the condition of distressed urban children. Following an introduction, Section 2 describes the urban child project designed to study and advance the plight of urban children in developing nations. Section 3 outlines the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Child Labor, Children
