Impact Initiative - Education: Recent submissions
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How Higher Education Research Using the Capability Approach Illuminates Possibilities for the Transformation of Individuals and Society in South Africa
(African Minds, 2018)The capability approach offers a normative framework for thinking how higher education can support human well-being and fulfilment. This chapter explores how higher education research using the capability approach illuminates ... -
Capability-promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development
(Policy Press and Bristol University Press, 2017-11-08)How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development ... -
Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom” on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-14)his article examines the effects of one year of exposure to “Learning to Read in a Healing Classroom” (LRHC) on the reading and math skills of second- to fourth-grade children in the low-income and conflict-affected ... -
Promoting Children's Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries: Testing Change Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016)
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02)Improving children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries is critically important for breaking the intergenerational transmission of violence and poverty. Yet there is currently a stunning lack of rigorous ... -
Supporting Children with Disabilities in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: Promoting Inclusive Practice within Community-Based Childcare Centres in Malawi through a Bioecological Systems Perspective
(Springer Netherlands, 2018)Given the narrow scope and conceptualisation of inclusion for young children with disabilities in research within low- and middle income countries (LMICs) contexts, we draw on a bioecological systems perspective to propose ... -
The Capacity of Community-based Participatory Research in Relation to Disability and the SDGs
(Disability and the Global South, 2017)This paper has highlighted an alignment between the aims of the 2030 Agenda and the nature of disability-focused CBPR. It has also demonstrated CBPR in practice in the global South and raised tensions and dilemmas that ... -
Estimating the Number of Out-of-School Children: Methodological Problems and Alternative Approaches - India Case Study
(UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Canada, 2016)This paper is a follow-up of the India Report on Out-of-School Children (United Nations Children’s Fund and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, August 2014). The India Report was useful especially because it highlighted ... -
Mother Tongue Education Improves Literacy in Uganda
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, 2018-09)Children whose first language is not the language of instruction in school are more likely to drop out or fail in early grades. Research from the Universities of Illinois and their Ugandan partners Mango Tree Educational ... -
Introduction: Overcoming Inequalities in Teaching and Learning
(Springer Netherlands, 2015-09)This Introduction highlights the main focus of the special issue on "Overcoming inequalities in teaching and learning". The 2013/4 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR), Teaching and Learning: Achieving Quality ... -
Education of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan: Enhanced Agency, Unfulfilled Aspirations
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-05-14)This paper examines the extent to which the capability approach captures the complexity of the lives of young women with disabilities in Pakistan, particularly in relation to their education. Focusing on their educational ... -
Improving the Public Sector Schools in Pakistan: Strategies for Introducing Voice into the System
(Oxford University Press, 2015-06)The contributions in this book are research-based and strive at providing a deeper understanding of the various dimensions of the education crises as well as responses to them. Among the aims of this book are also to reach ... -
Teacher Politics: Meeting Educational Quality Challenges with Teachers. Report Prepared for the Education Commission
(The Education Commssion/The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, 2016)This report provides a snapshot view of the landscape of teacher reforms and their political presence in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. This study has indicated that teachers are not only a critical input into a child’s ... -
Teachers – an Indispensable Asset: Examining Teacher Effectiveness in South Asia
(Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2015-07)Across the realms of educational research and policy-making, it is universally acknowledged that teacher effectiveness forms a fundamental determinant of children’s learning experiences. Low educational outcomes have dogged ... -
Schools and Learning in Rural India and Pakistan: Who Goes Where, and How Much are they Learning?
(Springer Netherlands, 2015-09)It is increasingly recognized that there is a global learning crisis. This article investigates this learning crisis through a comparative analysis of rural India and Pakistan. Using data from each country’s Annual Status ... -
Learning in India's Primary Schools: How do Disparities Widen Across the Grades?
(Elsevier Ltd., 2017)Using a large-scale household survey, we investigate how disparities in learning change over the primary school cycle. Even controlling for other factors, household wealth and parental schooling drive sizeable gaps in ... -
Reforms to Increase Teacher Effectiveness in Developing Countries: Systematic Review, September 2016
(EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK, 2016-09)Provides high-quality evidence on reforms/interventions in education systems aimed at improving teacher effectiveness, at scale. This executive summary provides an overview of that key evidence to answer three review ... -
Helpdesk Report: The Teacher Labour Market in Pakistan
(The Health & Education Advice & Resource Team (HEART), 2016-09-09)This report undertakes a rapid review of existing literature and summarises some key evidence on the teacher labour market in South Asia. It specifically focuses on salaries and conditions of teachers in the low-fee private ... -
A Study on the Quality Monitoring of County Education
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Exploring the range and extent of senior secondary school effectiveness across three regions in mainland China
(2010)This presentation reports research that examines the range of school effectiveness and the methods used to define and measure educational quality in mainland China. Key questions concerning data collection, statistical ... -
Emerging perceptions of teacher quality and teacher development in China
(2014)This paper focuses on the work of senior high school teachers in three representative local authority regions of mainland China. It discusses interview and focus group data collected as part of an ESRC/DfID-funded project ...