Impact Initiative - Education: Recent submissions
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Dimensions of the Public Good in South African Higher Education
(Springer, 2018)The focus is on the micro-possibilities of student capabilities formation as the end of public-good higher education, rather than on a systems or organizations approach more commonly found in discussions of the public good ... -
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Fair Access
(African Minds, 2018)The goal in this chapter is to sketch the access terrain in order to understand what may be missing in relation to equity and to research so that we can work towards university access ... -
Investigating the Comprehension Iceberg: Developing Empirical Benchmarks for Early-grade Reading in Agglutinating African Languages
(AOSIS, 2020)Reading development in agglutinating African languages is a relatively under-researched area. While numerous studies highlight the low comprehension levels among learners reading in African languages in South Africa, little ... -
School Leadership and Management: Identifying Linkages with Learning and Structural Inequalities
(Springer, 2019)This chapter summarises three phases of research developments in South Africa that have successively brought more reliable quantitative evidence to bear on what we know about the linkages between school leadership and ... -
Academic Resilience in Challenging Contexts: Evidence from Township and Rural Primary Schools in South Africa
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Poverty is considered a risk factor that jeopardizes children’s academic performance. However, even in high-poverty contexts there are students who manage to achieve consistently good academic results. This paper uses a ... -
Addressing the 'Leadership Conundrum' Through a Mixed Methods Study of School Leadership for Literacy
(SAGE, 2019)This paper explores methodological insights from a mixed methods study that aims to understand how school leaders promote literacy development in their schools. The study findings consider both the complementarities and ... -
School Leadership and Local Learning Contexts in South Africa
(SAGE, 2018)International research has shown that the quality of school leadership and management (SLM) is important for teaching and learning, particularly in schools where there is acute resource deprivation. This article explores ... -
Accountability from the Grassroots: Children's Foundational Reading and Arithmetic in Sitapur District, Uttar Predesh
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, 2020)The project 'Accountability from the Grassroots' aims to investigate if Pratham’s community-based interventions could be more effective at raising learning outcomes when they work in both schools and communities. As part ... -
From Assessment to Action: Lessons from the Development of Theories of Change with the People's Action for Learning Network
(Global Education Review, 2020)In recent years, much attention has been given to extremely poor levels of learning outcomesin low-and lower-middle income countries. Citizen-led assessments have played a vital role in highlighting this “learning crisis.” ... -
Assessment for Action: An Organic, Free-Range Approach to Raising Learning for All
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, 2018)The aim of this synthesis report is to identify commonalities that can help to characterise the PAL Network’s work as a whole. More specifically, it presents: (1) The role that the PAL Network’s assessments provide in both ... -
Experience and Lessons of Learning Intervention Programmes Across the PAL Network Members
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, 2018)The People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network is one of the leading South-South collaborations in education, working to improve learning outcomes in 14 countries across South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. This ... -
Chapter 9: Gender, Poverty and Educational Equality
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)A chapter on gender, poverty and educational equality from 'The SAGE Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education'. The handbook examines policy and practice from around the world with respect to broadly conceived ... -
Global Campaigns for Girls' and Women's Education, 2000-2017: Insights from Transnational Social Movement Theory
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of global campaigns on girls’ and women’s education, including major global policy initiatives such as the MDGs and the SDGs. While scholars have critically analysed the ... -
Achieving Gender Equality in and Through Education: A Knowledge And Innovation Exchange (KIX) Discussion Paper
(Global Partnership for Education, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to describe the current landscape in gender equality in education and spark discussion and debate around potential areas for KIX investment. The paper is part of a series of discussion papers, ... -
The Many Meanings of Quality Education: Politics of Targets and Indicators in SDG 4
(Durham University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)The formulation of the SDG education targets was more inclusive than the processes linked with the MDGs. Key constituencies making representations through the Open Working Group and other consultative processes succeeded ... -
An Other Self? Education, Foreignness, Reflexive Comparison and Capability as Connection
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)The article is an attempt to explore through the lens of my identification as a foreigner, a number of different themes around work in comparative education, particularly aspects of the question of method, and some reflections ... -
Accountability and Trust: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
(Springer, 2019)Trust and accountability are often positioned as opposites, the argument being that accountability is based on distrust and correction of identified deficiencies. Yet, trust is also important in order for accountability ... -
Outsourcing Education: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
(American Economic Association, 2020)In 2016, the Liberian government delegated management of 93 randomly selected public schools to private providers. Providers received US$50 per pupil, on top of US$50 per pupil annual expenditure in control schools. After ... -
IRC Healing Classrooms Remedial Tutoring Programming Improves Nigerien and Nigerian Children's Learning. 3EA: Education in Emergencies, Evidence for Action
(International Rescue Committee (IRC), 2018)With support from Dubai Cares during the school year 2016-2017, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) delivered Learning in a Healing Classroom remedial tutoring programming to support local and internally displaced ... -
Using Ethnography and 'Real Lteracies' to Develop a Curriculum for English Literacy Teaching for Young Deaf Adults in India
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)This paper reports on an international collaborative project working with deaf learners of English literacy (19–28 years old) in five locations in India: Indore; Vadadora; Comibatore; Pattambi; and Thrissur. Indian Sign ...