Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans

Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans
Author: K. Subbarao
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821358573

This title makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the many risks and vulnerability faced by orphans and the ameliorating role played by the actions of governments and donors.

Adult Literacy Programs in Uganda

Adult Literacy Programs in Uganda
Author: Anthony Okech
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780821348826

The policy of the World Bank has been to focus on universal primary education, rather than supporting adult literacy programmes. But slow progress in Sub-Saharan Africa has convinced the Bank that adult literacy, especially amongst women, is a key factor in promoting economic and social development. This study of programmes in Uganda shows that adult literacy programmes can be more effective than was previously thought; that government run programmes can be as effective as those run by non-governmental organisations and that there is a large, unsatisfied demand among Ugandan adults for more education.

Accelerating Catch-up

Accelerating Catch-up
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0821377396

This book lays out a rationale, provides supporting evidence, and suggests promising pathways for Sub-Saharan Africa to sustain current economic growth by aligning its tertiary education systems with national economic strategies and labor market needs.

Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Kirsten Majgaard
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0821388908

Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis takes stock of education in Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on the collective knowledge gained through the preparation of Country Status Reports for more than 30 countries.

International Handbook of Comparative Education

International Handbook of Comparative Education
Author: Robert Cowen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1371
Release: 2009-08-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402064039

This two-volume compendium brings together leading scholars from around the world who provide authoritative studies of the old and new epistemic motifs and theoretical strands that have characterized the interdisciplinary field of comparative and international education in the last 50 years. It analyses the shifting agendas of scholarly research, the different intellectual and ideological perspectives and the changing methodological approaches used to examine and interpret education and pedagogy across different political formations, societies and cultures.

A Bibliographic Guide to Educational Research

A Bibliographic Guide to Educational Research
Author: Dorothea M. Berry
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810823433

585 new titles, most published from 1980 to 1989, and 213 new editions and supplement volumes of titles cited in the second edition. Appendix and extensive indexes. Recommended for undergraduate bibliographic collections. --ARBA

Issues in African Education

Issues in African Education
Author: A. Abdi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2005-11-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1403977194

This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus aim to be of interest internationally, to those who work in such fields as social and political foundations of comparative and international education, and development studies, including university professors, teacher educators, researchers, school teachers, tertiary education students, consultants and policy makers.

University Autonomy, the State and Social Change in China

University Autonomy, the State and Social Change in China
Author: Su-Yan Pan
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 962209936X

This book explores the role of universities in responding to ongoing changes in China, and in shaping the relations between the university and the state during periods of social change. Tsinghua University is selected as a case study to inform this important issue. By tracing the changes and continuities Tsinghua has experienced since 1911, this book gives an in-depth analysis of how the university strives to maintain autonomy while taking a leading role in implementing China’s policy of higher education. By drawing on a vast literature of higher education theories, the book offers original insights into the university-state relationship and provides a new understanding on the complexities China faces in the era when the country is becoming a key global actor.