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Sewall, Jennifer; Tippens, Julie A.; Miamidian, Helen M.; Nyaoro, Dulo – Africa Education Review, 2021
Urban refugees' educational access and achievement is shaped by structural and social factors at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels. We draw on data from structured questionnaires, focus group discussions, and brief interviews in Nairobi, Kenya with refugee learners, caregivers, schoolteachers and administrators, and nongovernmental organisation…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Schwartz, Anneli – Education Inquiry, 2014
This article presents research from a school in a multicultural suburb on the outskirts of a large Swedish conurbation that used a particular pedagogy with strong classification and framing to address an identified problem of academic failure amongst its pupils. The analysis shows that the pedagogy was chosen based on an assumption that pupils…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Suburbs, Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods
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Ngai, Steven Sek-Yum; Cheung, Chau-Kiu; Ngai, Ngan-Pun; Chan, Kwok-Bong – Child & Youth Services, 2009
With the maturation of the service-learning field in recent years, school-community partnerships have emerged as an important area for studying the effectiveness of this type of experiential education. However, the paucity of studies of school-community partnerships indicates that they are only beginning to be understood and thus require further…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, School Community Relationship, Experiential Learning, Interviews