More education, better jobs? A critical review of CCTs and Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme for long-term poverty reduction

H Jones - Social Policy and Society, 2016 - cambridge.org
Conditional cash transfers have come to play a prominent role in the social policy landscape
in Latin America and especially in Brazil in recent years. Evaluations of their impacts …

Lesson observations in sub-Saharan Africa: bringing learners into focus

R Mitchell, LO Milligan - Cambridge journal of education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article considers different approaches to lesson observation and their potential for
understanding and evaluating classroom practice in sub-Saharan Africa. We start with a …

[HTML][HTML] Peer support in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical interpretive synthesis of school-based research

R Mitchell - International Journal of Educational Development, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper concerns an aspect of schooling in sub-Saharan Africa which receives limited
attention in official education discourse–namely, that students themselves often bear …

The privatization of education in Turkey from the 2000s: between educational policies and strategies of local actors

E Demirtas, A Akkari - Journal of Educational Studies and …, 2022 - jesma.net
During the last three decades, the number of private schools in Turkey has increased
sharply. Private schools have gained momentum, mainly from 2010, as the number of …

[HTML][HTML] Leaving no place behind: Community participation and primary school students' learning achievements in Burkina Faso's small-scale gold mining …

MBJB Sanfo - International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2020 - Elsevier
Community participation in education is important to improve education quality, mostly in
developing countries where governments face many issues in the education sector but have …

'Making do': Teachers' coping strategies for dealing with textbook shortages in urban Zambia

J Lee, SS Zuilkowski - Teaching and Teacher Education, 2015 - Elsevier
Textbooks are a critical component of quality education in developing countries. This article
investigates textbook availability and teachers' coping strategies in the face of poor textbook …

Outsmarting your parents: Being a first‐generation learner in developing countries

MJO Portela, P Atherton - Review of Development Economics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We use data from the Young Lives surveys, in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, to
highlight an underappreciated phenomenon—that a substantial proportion of students in …

Education as a public and common good: revisiting the role of the State in a context of growing marketization

R Locatelli - MeTis-Mondi educativi. Temi, indagini, suggestioni, 2017 - metisjournal.it
Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a tremendous expansion of school
systems around the world. Especially in the countries of the Global South, this expansion …

Connecting family, school, gold mining community and primary school students' reading achievements in Burkina Faso–A three-level hierarchical linear model …

JBMB Sanfo - International Journal of Educational Development, 2021 - Elsevier
Family, school, and community play an important role in creating learning opportunities, but
research on the topic tends to approach them separately. Employing three-level hierarchical …

La contribution des enseignants à la pertinence de l'éducation de base en Afrique de l'Ouest: le cas du Sénégal

T Lauwerier - McGill Journal of Education, 2016 - erudit.org
Cet article vise à comprendre quelle est la contribution des enseignants à une éducation de
base de qualité au Sénégal, avec un accent particulier sur le concept d'éducation …