Deficit as a way of life?: Land, education and gender in a local village community in India
In this paper, I explore the implications of the international education and development discourse for a local village community living in contexts of precarity in... Read More
Students’ Perspectives on Broadening Participation of Female Students and Improving Gender-Equitable Education in an East African University Setting
Background Ethiopia is a patriarchal society with marked gender differences in many aspects of life, including education. Ethiopia ranks 173rd out of 189 countries on... Read More
Gender representation in Middle School Moral Education Textbooks in South Korea, 1973-2019
As the Dakar Framework for Action called for “eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education” in 2000, the publication of gender-equitable curricular and textbooks... Read More
Voices Unheard: Religious minority students navigate Pakistan’s higher education system
Religion-based violence and intolerance is often fueled by the education system of Pakistan, largely through the biased portrayals of religious minorities in textbooks (Afzal, 2017).... Read More
A future of infinite possibilities? Institutional differences in configuring aspirations and transitions
The post-study aspirations and/or transitions of international students have been examined in extant literature, with a focus on the perceived and/or experienced exchange value of... Read More
Providing baseline indicators for precarious populations: Evidence from the Haiti National Evaluation 2017
Climate change has become an inevitable consequence of modern human standards of living and consumption. While sea level rise endangers cities around the world, small... Read More
Mainstream schools as shadow education providers in the Czech Republic
Shadow education is a global phenomenon encompassing various forms and types of private supplementary tutoring (Bray, 1999). Scholarly literature so far mainly focused on fee-based... Read More
“Urban Slum Education”: A Case Study of Children’s Experience in Jakarta
Fast-paced expansion of urban poverty entailed the proliferation of slum population, estimated 881 million worldwide (UN-Habitat, 2016). The international community’s action-making on the Sustainable Development... Read More
Specialized Schools in Israel: A Critical Policy Analysis of the Past Three Decades
Although Israel aspires for equity, its students’ academic achievement distribution is characterized by large gaps compared with other OECD countries (OECD, 2018) Moreover, there is... Read More
Comparison of international and within-country perspective on academically resilient students as defined by OECD: An empirical study
Objectives: OECD (2010; 2013; 2016) has periodically reported international comparisons of the status and trends of academic resilience among students in the OECD countries using... Read More