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This paper aims at informing the global debate on the way to design and implement inclusive and integrated educational reforms towards developing generic work related skills in Africa. It is part of a global re-conceptualization of education and...
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In many countries, the available data show that girls are victims of different forms of violence that take place around, or even in, their school. This has a negative effect on their schooling and can even lead to them dropping out of school. The...
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Produced by a team of eighteen professionals (from universities, NGOs, government and cooperation agency), this research is based on six case studies as well as conceptual and theoretical contributions. It describes the key principles of an...
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2011
This paper explains how CSTL —Care and Support for Teaching and Learning-- which provides a coordinating mechanism for ministries of education to lead a multiple-sectoral response to mainstreaming care and support — can impact positively on the...
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2011
The study highlights critical insights of relevance to the shift to a content referenced curriculum in South Africa, and shows how the ‘knowledge mix' which forms the foundation of the new Teacher Education Qualifications Framework can be...
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A call has therefore been made for a new focus on Lifelong Learning skills in the light of major challenges such as poverty, inequality and mass unemployment. With this in mind, this study sought to unearth the basic lifelong learning skills...
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2011
A major concern confronting the education system in Ghana is how to make education, especially at the basic education level, meaningful and useful to those basic school leavers who do not have the opportunity to benefit from further formal education...
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2011
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1. As an overview, this study brings to the community of knowledge a framework for the development of environmental literacy policy and program-planning within a matrix that links quality and results-oriented pedagogy to institutional and...
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2011
This paper attempts to compare learning levels of children in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, based on the Uwezo Report titled: Are Our Children Learning? Numeracy and Literacy Across East Africa. This report bases on learning assessment of children in...
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2011