Common core skills for lifelong learning and sustainable development in Africa
The present synthesis is based on current literature review on education reconstruction dynamics, particularly with regard to the impact education can have on mitigating or worsening country fragility. It also rests on four national studies,...
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1. This study explores the role of Qur'anic schooling, as an alternative approach to conventional education, in enabling Kenya to attain the goals of Education for All (EFA). Using desk study and field work in selected regions, the...
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Children have the right to besafe, cared for, and stimulatedat home, in school, and in the community. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) states that parents are a child's first and best educators and caregivers. The CRC...
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The extent to which skills or the competency-based ethos of the curriculum are communicated in the books and learning materials used to deliver it in year 4 and 7 of schooling in Tanzania was the major theme of this study. Officials from MoEVT, TIE...
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This paper is the result of a study conducted by a team of African experts covering various African countries (Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Nigeria) on the crucial issue of literacy education for nomadic people. It has been...
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This document addresses certain issues and realities of the education and training of pastoral and nomadic populations, describes the innovative experiences of several countries, and briefly outlines the process of multi-partner consultation carried...
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This is a report of the responsiveness of selected KESSP targeted interventions aimed at enhancing inclusive and equitable primary education in Kenya. Using desk reviews, case studies as well as survey, the study focused on how the interventions...
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This paper deals with the overall theme of the Triennale, namely the importance of "Promoting critical knowledge, skills and qualifications for sustainable development in Africa: How to design and implement an effective response through...
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In this study we discuss the psychological mechanisms which favour social behaviour of individuals in society and its importance for social cohesion. We ask for the meaning of core social competencies as a sustainable contribution to quality in...
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