The implications of school improvement and school effectiveness research for primary school principals in Ethiopia

R Mitchell - Educational Review, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In the last 20 years the Ethiopian education system has rapidly expanded, leading to a
500% increase in primary school enrolment. The Ministry of Education (MoE) has sought to …

Community participation in school management in developing countries

M Nishimura - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, 2017 - oxfordre.com
Community participation in school management has great potentials for removing mistrust
and distance between people and schools by nurturing transparency of information and a …

Community participation in school management from the viewpoint of relational trust: A case from the Akatsi South District, Ghana

K Shibuya - International journal of educational development, 2020 - Elsevier
There remain research gaps concerning how community participation in school
management leads to educational outcomes. This paper explores the following research …

Democracy or control? The participation of management, teachers, students and parents in school leadership in Tigray, Ethiopia

R Mitchell - International Journal of Educational Development, 2017 - Elsevier
In Ethiopia, as elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), there are efforts to broaden local
stakeholder participation in structures and processes of school leadership. Despite …

Policy promise and the reality of community involvement in school-based management in Zambia: Can the rural poor hold schools and teachers to account?

T Okitsu, DB Edwards Jr - International Journal of Educational Development, 2017 - Elsevier
Community participation in school management—and in hiring and firing of teachers in
particular—has been actively advocated as an effective reform to improve school and …

Improving school quality in junior high schools in Ghana: Teachers' myth and reality of a decentralization policy

CY Kwaah, M Nishimuko - SAGE Open, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In the education decentralization processes, community participation in education
governance has been argued to be essential for improving accountability to service …

Whose reality? A meta-analysis of qualitative research in international and comparative education

RB Costa, SM Hall, A Spear - 2016 - repositorio.minedu.gob.pe
This meta-analysis seeks to critically examine the qualitative research being published in
influential journals in the field of international and comparative education in order to …

The effects of school‐based management on Indian government schools

P Guha - Review of Development Economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
India institutionalized school‐based management in 2009 by requiring all government
schools to constitute school management committees, primarily staffed by parents, that …

Education for democratic citizenship in Malawian secondary schools: Balancing student voice and adult privilege

P Namphande, L Clarke, S Farren… - Compare: A Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In countries that embraced democracy after the fall of communism, education became a
particular focus for policy change, particularly within their citizenship programmes. Schools …

History and development of education in Africa

S Yamada - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, 2019 - oxfordre.com
Thanks to the concerted effort of the international community to promote basic education,
driven by the Education for All (EFA) goals and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) …