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Gender
Water and Sanitation
Water Hauling and Girls’ School Attendance: Some New Evidence from Ghana
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October 28, 2014

In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time This paper studies how such costs affect girls’ schooling in Ghana, with an analysis based on four rounds of the Demographic… Read more

Children, developing countries, Early Childhood Development, Education, Ghana, School, Water
Africa’s Future, Africa’s Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
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October 16, 2014

Much is written about Africa today, and much of it is not hopeful. Daily, the world hears stories of disease, despair, and death. Such a litany of misery is not unfounded—but there are also stories of hope, promise, and potential. They too are a critically important part of the complex story of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)… Read more

Africa, Children
Education
Educational Technology: A Definition with Commentary
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October 6, 2014

Continuing the tradition of the 1963, 1977, and 1994 AECT projects to define the ever-changing contours of the field, the Definition and Terminology Committee completed the most recent definitional effort with the publication of Educational Technology: A Definition with Commentary in 2007. The main purpose of the 384-page book is to frame the issues confronting… Read more

Education
Mobile learning: structures, agency, practices
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October 6, 2014

As with television and computers before it, today’s mobile technology challenges educators to respond and ensure their work is relevant to students. What’s changed is that this portable, cross-contextual way of engaging with the world is driving a more proactive approach to learning on the part of young people. The first full-length authored treatment of… Read more

Education
Family Friendly! Working with deaf children and their communities worldwide
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September 11, 2014

This book aims to raise awarenes of the important role that parents and families can play in the lives of their deaf children and in their communities. It provides practical examples showing how families, service providers and deaf people can work together to support deaf children.  The book takes an action learning approach and is… Read more

Education
Inclusive Education: Where there are few resources
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August 6, 2014

This book aims to provide a background and critical overview of key issues, concepts and strategies in relation to inclusive education, that are relevant to situations where economic resources and access to information is limited . The importance of proper resourcing for inclusion is highlighted in the UN Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities… Read more

Education
Making Schools Inclusive – How change can happen
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August 1, 2014

This book is about how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can help school systems in developing countries become more inclusive. It shares experience of developing tools and approaches that have improved education for the most excluded children in society. While the principles of inclusive education have been broadly accepted by many since the international Salamanca Statement of… Read more

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Inclusive Education at Work – Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Schools
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August 1, 2014

The rights of students with disabilities to be educated in their local mainstream school is becoming more and more accepted in most countries, and many reforms are being put in place to achieve this goal. Further, there is no reason to segregate disabled students in public education systems; instead, education systems need to be reconsidered… Read more

Education
A Quality Education for All. A History of the Lao PDR Inclusive Education Project 1993-2009
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August 1, 2014

This publication details the challenges and lessons learned from 16 years of the Laos PDR inclusive education project. Pre-Service and In-Service training are key areas which need to be strategically developed in order to ensure that all students with disabilities are enabled to participate and achieve in school. Of fundamental importance is the structure of… Read more

Community, Policy, Teacher Education
Education
Financing secondary education in developing countries: Strategies for sustainable growth
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April 25, 2014

At the World Conference on Education for All in 1990, most developing countries reaffirmed their commitment to providing universal access to a first cycle of education to their school-age children. As a result, primary enrolments throughout the developing world have grown, fuelled by grants, expanded lending and by substantial domestic allocations of resources. Little attention… Read more

Health
Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale. A Reference Guide for Program Managers and Policy Makers.
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January 29, 2014

The current enthusiasm for large-scale community health workers (CHWs) needs to be tempered with a sobering reflection on the disappointments that followed a similar wave of enthusiasm in the 1970s and 1980s, noting challenges in scaling up and sustaining large-scale public sector CHW programs. Large-scale public sector CHW programs are complex entities that require adapting… Read more

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