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Malawi was the first country after the Jomtien conference to offer free primary education. Despite this policy, universal education has remained elusive. Many children do enroll in school, but not at the official/recommended age and drop out before completing school. Understanding these transition points – entry and completion – is critical to the achievement of universal education. This paper focuses on one of these transition points – entry. Since households determine the timing and duration of schooling, this study examines 3290 households to explore the characteristics associated with delayed school enrollment. The study finds that the survival of the mother, female headship, and the head's level of education, are associated with a lower probability of delayed enrollment. 相似文献
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Using Danish administrative data on all high school graduates from 1984 to 1992, I show that local unemployment has both a short- and a long-run effect on school enrollment and completion. The short-run effect causes students to advance their enrollment, and consequently their completion, of additional schooling. The long-run effect causes students who would otherwise never have enrolled to enroll and complete schooling. The effects are strongest for children of parents with no higher education. 相似文献
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Marjaana Kangas 《Learning Environments Research》2010,13(3):205-223
This grounded-theory study involved how Finnish children describe their ideal school and learning environment and considers
how their notions should be valued in the development of schools to better respond to the challenges of the future. The school
children, aged 10–12 years, participated in the study by writing a story about a school in which they would be happy to study.
Ninety-three children’s stories were coded and analysed, and a model of the ideal school and learning environment based on
their ideas was developed. This model school, called a Broadening and Empowering Learning Environment, is designed to contribute
to children’s physical, educational, cultural and socio-emotional well-being, offers opportunities for fantasy and innovation,
and employs creative and sports-based learning methods, among others, in both formal and informal settings. The study showed
that children, as educational stakeholders, are well aware of the potential of modern schools and of the different aspects
that would enhance their ability to learn and their satisfaction with schooling. 相似文献
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C. P. S. Chauhan 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(2):227-240
In this paper, the author has attempted to analyze and assess the progress of education for all (EFA) in India from 1985/1986 to 2005/2006. A similar analysis by the same author on this subject, for the period 1950–1986, was published in this journal in 1990. During that period of 35 years the development of EFA was apparently impressive, but glaring disparities in schooling facilities based on rural–urban habitation, region, caste and gender were observed. About half of all the rural schools lacked physical facilities and suffered from shortage of teachers. While enrollment had apparently increased, three‐fourths of enrolled children left school without completing elementary education. The progress of literacy was also not satisfactory with the literacy rate having increased marginally from 16% in 1951 to an estimated 38% in 1986. The literacy rates also exhibited disparities based on gender, caste, region and rural–urban location. After launching of the National Policy on Education 1986, the Government of India has made concerted efforts to achieve the goal of EFA by launching several new schemes, including expansion of non‐formal education for out‐of‐school children, improvement of physical facilities in schools, implementation of a micro‐planning strategy, the launch of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and the passage of a Bill in Parliament to make elementary education a ‘fundamental right’ of every child. The problem of illiteracy was attacked by launching an ambitious new programme called the National Literacy Mission. However, recently published reports show that there are about 59 million out‐of‐school children; enrollment of girls is low; the dropout rate up to Class VIII is still high; school‐age children work for wages; rural children have no easy access to schools; many schools still lack physical facilities; and there is a shortage of teachers and headmasters. The author feels that India must revise its target date for achieving the goal of EFA at least once again and suggests that the Government should carefully monitor the implementation of policies, and at the same time, enhance expenditure on education from the present 3.5% to 6% of the GNP as early as possible, so as to deal with the situation more effectively. 相似文献
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Carmel Maloney 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2000,27(3):143-150
Ritual is a fact of school life and is enacted by teachers in their everyday classroom activities. This paper explores the
various forms of ritual as they are played out in preschool settings. A key finding is that rituals have both variant and
invariant qualities. The invariant order of ritual provides the stable framework that has become part of the school system,
whereas rituals with high levels of variance are responsible for a more personalized and flexible approach to teaching. Classroom
rituals have the potential to act as a tool through which teachers structure a particular form of practice that carries a
rational pedagogical purpose for teachers.
In this study preschool denotes the noncompulsory year of schooling immediately before children enter formal schooling. Children
in this setting turn 5 years of age between January and December. Formal schooling in Western Australia begins in the year
the child turns 6 years of age (January to December). The Montessori Pre-School catered to children from 3–5 years in keeping
with the founder’s philosophy of mixed age groups. 相似文献
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This study explores the inter-generational effects of health shocks using longitudinal data of Young Lives project conducted in the southern state of India, Andhra Pradesh for two cohorts of children (younger and older). It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in human capital of children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. There is a temporary delay in primary school enrollment in the case of younger cohort, while schooling attainment is reduced by 0.26 years for older children. This paper further contributes to the literature on important dimensions like role of timing of the shocks and the pathways through which they affect human capital investment, differential effects of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, ability of the children and quality of schooling in schooling attainment. 相似文献
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Recent attention has focused on the existence of non-government schools that cater to children from low-income families. These schools can now be found in the majority of developing countries, many of which have a prescribed public policy to provide free public education. This raises the question, why would a low-income family choose to send a child to a fee-paying school if a place in a free school were available? This paper will report on case studies of low-fee schools in Jamaica, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Indonesia and Pakistan and will assess the reasons for their increased demand. In the past, some have argued that development assistance agencies should limit assistance to public school sector. Others have argued that the public sector is inadequate and in many ways has failed in its ambitions to provide a minimum quality for every child.This paper will consider what public policy should be toward low-cost private schools, including the policy of development assistance agencies which seek to assist low and middle income countries as well as the appropriate public policy for national and local governments. The paper will conclude with several recommendations. One recommendation is that although children from low-income families attend non-government schools, they continue to be citizens; hence they should not be excluded from poverty assistance strategies. A second recommendation is to expand government statistical functions so that non-government schools are regularly included in the calculations of enrollment rates. Lastly, the paper does not recommend voucher or other program of publically financed school choice on the grounds that the public sector should remain the main conduit for public schooling. It does, however, raise questions as to the limits of the public sector in delivering high quality schooling and whether these limits should be more candidly acknowledged. 相似文献
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The study used learning environment variables in investigating changes occurring as students transfer from primary to secondary
school, including the role of student sex and school size pathway as influencing factors in changes in learning environment
perceptions. The My Class Inventory (MCI) and Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) were used in two data-gathering stages,
one in the penultimate month of primary schooling and the other in the fourth month of secondary schooling. The sample comprised
1500 students from 47 feeder primary schools and 16 linked secondary schools. The primary schools ranged from very small isolated
country schools to larger city schools with hundreds of students. Five different school size transition pathways were defined
for analysis: small-to-medium, medium-to-medium, small-to-large, medium-to-large and ‘within-school’ (involving schools with
a K-10 structure, but with separate primary and secondary school sites within the same campus). Although the classroom climate
in secondary schools was perceived more favourably than in primary schools (especially in terms of less friction and competitiveness),
the quality of teacher-student interaction was perceived to deteriorate on most dimensions assessed by the QTI (e.g. a reduction
in teachers' leadership, helping/friendly, understanding and student responsibility/freedom behaviours). But changes in environment
perceptions across transition varied with student sex and school size pathway. For example, perceptions of class satisfaction
across transition deteriorated for girls, but improved for the boys. The findings have implications for administrators and
teachers, particularly those with a role within the ‘middle school’ years.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Maria Cassidy Corresponding author 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2005,25(2):143-153
Almost all 3‐ and 4‐year‐olds in Scotland now experience some form of pre‐school provision prior to school entry. Given such high rates of participation, the impact of pre‐school experiences on children's readiness for primary school has become an important issue for those involved in the early stages of compulsory schooling. Teachers in early years classes need to be aware of the experiences and achievements of individual children in their pre‐school setting to enable each child to transfer into mainstream education with the least amount of disruption to their learning. This study was carried out in one small Scottish local authority and explored the perceptions of early years teachers, from a diverse range of primary schools, of what information is important for them as children start school. This article presents the perspectives of Primary 1 teachers on children's readiness for schooling. It reports the factors, which these teachers identified as having an impact on successful transition from the pre‐school setting into the primary school. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Educational Development》2006,26(5):471-482
For long now, the urban child has been considered to be more likely than his/her rural counterpart in being able to realize the dream of fully participating in school. This observation has mainly been attributed to what is commonly known as the “urban advantage”. This “urban advantage” is associated with increased access to facilities such as schools in urban areas. Recent work documenting population health in urban and rural areas has however begun to suggest that some sections of the urban population do not benefit from the “urban advantage”. For example, a child in the slums of Nairobi is more likely to suffer from diarrhea than a child in rural Kenya. In addition, a child from the richest household in the slums is more likely to suffer from diarrhea than a child from the poorest family in rural Kenya. This paper explores patterns of school enrollment comparing urban slum, urban non-slum and rural children. The paper uses data from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) for 1993, 1998 and 2003. A contrast with school enrollment in Nairobi slums is done using the KDHS-type Nairobi Cross Sectional Slum Survey for 2000. Data from focus group discussions collected in the slums of Nairobi provide the context for discussion. The results suggest that school enrollment is higher in urban non-slum than in urban slum areas, and is higher in slums than in rural areas at younger ages. However, this is only true up to age 9 for females and 11 for males, from which school enrollment for slum children declines and the rate of decline is faster than among their rural counterparts. The corresponding ages at which the enrollment among the rural children begins to visibly decline are 13 years for males and 14 years for females. Factors contributing to these results point to the poor quality of primary schools in slums, limited access to secondary school for slum children, increased vulnerability to coercion into sexual activity and other ills that hinder school participation, disabling environment at home and increased child labor. 相似文献
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Over the past thirty years, it has often been stated that primary school education should endeavour to improve and protect
the environment through producing an ‘environmentally informed, committed and active citizenry’. Even so, existing research
shows that the implementation of environmental education in primary schools is problematic and has had limited success. However,
the reasons for these shortcomings are far from clear, with present research merely speculating about barriers to effective
implementation. This paper presents a detailed discussion and analysis of primary school teachers knowledge and beliefs about
environmental concepts and environmental education. In so doing, the paper identifies a perceived gap within the field of
environmental education research and literature. This field has neglected studies of Australian primary school teacher’s knowledge
and beliefs about environmental education as a factor affecting the capacity of schooling to achieve environmental education
goals. To these ends, we utilise the concept of ‘environmental literacy’ to assess primary school teacher’s knowledge and
beliefs about environmental education. Based upon preliminary data analysis, we tentatively claim that current Queensland
primary school teachers are variably committed to and demonstrably lack content knowledge of environmental concepts and environmental
education. More significantly, these primary school teachers tend to dismiss the importance of content knowledge, preferring
to focus upon attitudes towards environmental education and environmental concepts. Clearly these levels of environmental
literacy are inadequate if environmentally literate students and thus an environmentally literate citizenry are to be achieved
within schools. We conclude that the introduction of environmental literacy in educational policy would advance the goals
of environmental education, namely the production of an informed, committed and active citizenry. 相似文献
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Nirmala Rao Kai-Ming Cheng Kirti Narain 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2003,49(1-2):153-176
This paper considers how state educational policy and other sociocontextual factors influence primary schooling in two large developing countries. In the late 1940s, national statistics for primary school enrolment and other human development indicators were comparable between China and India. Both countries then experienced major political transitions and embraced similar economic development priorities. Half a century later, reports prepared for the 2000 World Education Forum indicate that China had far outperformed India in terms of school enrolment ratios and on indices of the efficiency of primary education. This article considers the reasons for these differences. It discusses the role of the state, educational policy and its implementation, linkages among educational, economic and social policies, cultural belief systems that are relevant to education, classroom teaching and learning, teacher characteristics, and the physical conditions of schools. 相似文献
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《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(1):140-179
Whether public and private school choice initiatives usher in widespread enrollment changes or whether they cater to a small niche of students critically depends on the decisions that parents make on behalf of their children. Thus far, participation rates in most programs have proved disappointing. This article focuses on parents' knowledge of and interest in the choice provisions under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), for which a miniscule percentage of qualifying students nationwide have enlisted. Drawing from a survey of Massachusetts public school parents completed in the summer of 2003, 18 months after NCLB's enactment, two basic findings emerge. First, although parents claimed to be familiar with NCLB, the vast majority of those who in fact qualified for the act's choice provisions did not know that their child's school was on the state's list of underperforming schools. Second, parents with children in underperforming schools were especially interested in pursuing alternative schooling options. This interest, however, did not derive from pointed dissatisfaction with their current schools, and it was regularly directed toward options that NCLB does not afford-specifically, private schools. An essential point underscores these findings: If advocates of NCLB are to boost participation rates, and if scholars are to accurately predict the likely scope of other kinds of school choice programs, parents require considerably greater attention than they have received up until now. 相似文献
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Do students attending private schools learn more and have higher cognitive abilities than their public school counterparts in India? Though some recent works have discussed this question, the empirical contours to address the issue remain unclear, particularly in a diversifying school education market in India. This paper examines the factors determining the inequality in children’s learning outcomes (i.e., reading and math scores) in India using the second round of India Human Development Survey data. We examine the effect of a child’s ‘school absenteeism’ and ‘time spent for studying and doing homework’ on learning outcomes, and how these explain the existing learning gap between private and government school children. We provide strong evidence that the children attending private schools have significantly better learning outcomes than their government school counterparts. However, this performance difference between private and government school-going children reduces with the increase in school attendance and the time spent in studying and doing homework by a child. The findings of the study implicate that the cognitive abilities of low performing government school students can be improved by reducing their absenteeism in schools and increasing time for studying and doing homework after school. 相似文献
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Despite considerable progress made, a significant proportion of children continue to drop out before reaching secondary school in India. This study investigates factors influencing parental decision-making with regard to children's secondary schooling in the context of a rural area of Uttar Pradesh. The study finds that cost, distance to the nearest secondary school, membership in traditionally marginalised social groups, and being a girl child have a significant effect on a child's chance of transition. It also finds that factors influencing participation at the primary level may influence the transition decision, having key implications for education policy formulation across education levels. 相似文献
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Thomas Poirier 《International Journal of Educational Development》2012,32(2):341-351
In the past decades, most of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have been affected by armed conflicts. By means of a time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) database, we attempt to measure the impact of war on a sample of 43 countries in Africa from 1950 to 2010. These conflicts, and especially civil wars, are shown to have a strong negative effect on the educational performances of the countries studied. The rate of children not attending school, as well as secondary school enrollment rates, seems particularly sensitive to periods of conflict. It also appears that government expenditures in social sectors including education are a positive factor in increasing school enrollment. In contrast, military expenditure is significantly and inversely related to schooling opportunities. Thus, if an extra 1% only of the GDP were allocated to education expenditure, the rate of children not attending school would decrease by 1.7%, the primary and secondary completion rates would increase respectively by 4.4% and by 2.6%. The gender analysis shows that education expenditures provide a better retention of girls in the school system. 相似文献
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The family-school relation and the child's school performance 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Using a nationally representative sample of American households, we examine the relation between parental involvement in schooling and the child's school performance. With a sample of 179 children, parents, and teachers, we investigate 3 hypotheses: (1) the higher the educational status of the mother the greater the degree of parental involvement in school activities; (2) the younger the age of the child the greater the degree of parental involvement; and (3) children of parents who are more involved in school activities do better in school than children with parents who are less involved. In an analysis of cross-sectional data, we discover support for the 3 hypotheses. The educational status of the mother is related to the degree of parental involvement in schooling, so that parents with more education are more involved. Parental involvement is related to the child's school performance. Also, parents are more involved in school activities if the child is younger. The mother's educational level and the age of the child are stronger predictors of parental involvement in schooling for boys than for girls. We do not, however, find a direct effect of maternal educational status on school performance independent of parental involvement in school activities. We discuss these findings in light of the relation between families and schools. 相似文献
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农村儿童为何失学?——基于多层模型的经验研究 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
刘泽云 《北京师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2007,(2):70-80
我国农村基础教育已经取得了很大进展,但农村儿童失学现象仍然比较普遍。分析影响农村儿童失学的因素,探究减少农村儿童失学现象和加快农村人力资本积累的有效途径,将有助于更好地实现教育公平,从长远来看则有利于提高农民收入和加快农村发展。在以往的研究中,影响儿童失学的个体层面因素和社区层面因素被简单地放在一个模型中分析,不能准确地估计出这两个层面的因素对儿童失学的影响。运用分层线性模型则能够有效避免这一问题。研究发现:儿童入学在整体上已不存在性别差异,但女孩入学受到的限制更大,即更依赖于家庭经济条件;家中有兄弟姐妹、父亲为少数民族、母亲文化程度较低、母亲不曾加入过共青团以及家庭经济条件较差的儿童面临更高的失学可能性;富裕村的儿童失学的可能性要小,村中学校教育质量较高有助于提高儿童的入学机会。因此,应进一步加大对农村基础教育阶段贫困儿童的资助,放缓削减学校布点的步伐,提高教育质量,以减少农村儿童失学。 相似文献
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Studies on Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have documented positive effects on school enrollment though evidence on learning outcomes is mixed. Using representative data, we evaluate one of the largest CCT programs, Kanyashree Prakalpa (KP), which was implemented in the state of West Bengal, India, in 2013. In particular, we examine the effect on female school enrollment and learning outcomes. Exploiting the timing of the program implementation for identification and applying difference-in-difference regressions, we document a positive effect on enrollment with no discernible impact on secondary and higher secondary school completion. We also observe significant improvements in lower-level learning outcomes but a marked deterioration in higher-level skills like solving simple division problems. Complementary investments like classroom availability and teacher attendance appear to have fallen after the implementation of KP, which explains the decline in learning skills despite higher schooling exposure, thereby underscoring the need for supply-side interventions in school amenities. 相似文献
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This paper examines the factors that prevent slum children aged 5–14 from gaining access to schooling in light of the worsening urban poverty and sizable increase in rural-to-urban migration. Bias against social disadvantage in terms of gender and caste is not clearly manifested in schooling, while migrated children are less likely to attend school. I argue that the lack of preparation for schooling in the pre-schooling ages and school admission procedures are the main obstacles for migrated children. The most important implication for universal elementary education in urban India is raising parental awareness and simplifying the admission procedures. 相似文献