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Hickey, Sam, Ed.; Hossain, Naomi, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2019
Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also that educational outcomes in developing countries are shaped by political as…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Politics of Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Knutsson, Beniamin – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
In the year 2000, Rwanda launched an ambitious long-term development strategy intended to render a fundamental transformation from an agrarian to a knowledge society by 2020. Knowledge society, however, could be viewed as a "floating signifier" open for a wide range of interpretations. Guided by a policy translation perspective the aim…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Social Change, Educational Change, Foreign Countries