Economic dimensions of sustainable development, the fight against poverty and educational responses     

Manzoor Ahmed 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2010,27(1):235-253

The arguments in the article are based on the ongoing discourse in the academic community and among stakeholders, which has contributed to the articulation of the concepts and premises of sustainable development and the role of learning modalities, technologies and networks. The article draws on this discourse to explore the economic aspects of sustainable development, focusing on pervasive poverty, and the implications for educational actions. The concepts and underlying premises of education for sustainable development (ESD) are discussed. The article presents the key elements of an integrated approach to fighting poverty in the context of sustainable development. The role of learning and education in this integrated approach is outlined, framing the educational elements within the perspective of lifelong learning.  相似文献   

Multiple providers and access to primary education: The case of Bangladesh     

Zia-Us-Sabur  Manzoor Ahmed 《Prospects》2010,40(3):393-415

Even though most children in Bangladesh are enrolled in school, the country faces enormous challenges in ensuring that children complete primary education, and learn an acceptable amount. Multiple providers—state, quasi-state, and non-state—have helped to raise the initial enrolment rate and improve the gender balance. The critical question is how the multiplicity and diversity of provision can contribute to achieving truly universal primary education with high completion rates and acceptable levels of learning. A range of sub-questions relate to this critical question, including what is meant by multiple provision and how a diversity of provisions can be shaped into a system that serves the goal of effective and equitable access. This article addresses the above questions in the context of the history and educational development in Bangladesh. They are particularly significant at present, as the government is about to implement a new national education policy and design a five-year national development plan (2011–2015), which would have a decisive impact on progress towards achieving the EFA goal of universal primary education by 2015.  相似文献   

Instructional design and online instruction     

Ahmed Ali 《TechTrends》2003,47(5):42-45

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Pastoral Care to Regulate School Bullying: Shame Management among Bystanders     

Eliza Ahmed 《Pastoral Care in Education》2005,23(2):23-29

Bystanders can reveal valuable information about bullying to school personnel to take action on it. If they remain reluctant, of course, they frustrate our efforts to stop bullying. But then, why would they get involved if doing so might make them victims of aggression too?
This paper investigates the importance of adaptive shame management in encouraging bystanders to prevent bullying. Data were collected through the Cross-national School Behaviour Research Project from 1452 secondary school students (49% girls) in grades 7–10 (mean=8.42) in Bangladesh. As predicted, students who scored higher on shame acknowledgement (admitting shame, accepting responsibility, making amends) were more likely to intervene to prevent bullying. Those with low shame displacement (blaming or hitting out at others) were also likely to intervene to stop bullying. Implications of these findings pertaining to pastoral staff, counsellors and school teachers working with students to encourage coming forward against bullying are discussed.  相似文献   

E-learning at Sultan Qaboos University: status and future Ali Sharaf Al Musawi and Ahmed Yousif Abdelraheem     

Ali Sharaf Al Musawi  Ahmed Yousif Abdelraheem 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2004,35(3):363-367

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A study of cross-national collaborative research: reflecting on experience in Pakistan     

Alan J. Penny  Mehru Ahmed Ali  Iffat Farah  Sissel Ostberg  Robert L. Smith 《International Journal of Educational Development》2000,20(6):443-455

This paper seeks to offer insights into the complexities involved in cross-national collaborative research. It identifies and provides an account of the various issues running through the research process, whilst at the same time derives principles upon which such work should be based. Key narratives were identified by highlighting a number of critical incidents. These narratives were related to issues of ownership, trust, and power, whilst in the course of theorising the research process itself, the metaphors of voice and crossing borders were found to be profoundly empowering and transformative. The complexities of working cross-nationally in the research group, understanding roles, clarifying professional frames and ethical values, at the same time as creating and maintaining a context for effective partnership and participation, made managing and sustaining the research process challenging.  相似文献   

Religion as a barrier to the use of student loans for higher education: A community-based participatory study with Somalis living in England     

Alija Avdukic  Fawad Khaleel  Ahmed Abdullah  Abdulbasit H. Brawe 《British Educational Research Journal》2023,49(2):370-404

The unwillingness of the Somali community to finance higher education has largely gone unnoticed within the academic literature and government policy documents. This study explores the role of religion and the influence of Shari'ah scholars on the use of interest-bearing student loans within the Somali community. In the absence of any theoretical framework on this topic, we explore the multiple socioeconomic factors that may influence the attitude, perception of need, motivation and action of using student loans for higher education, by proposing the UK Somali Muslims Acceptance of Interest-bearing Student Loan Model. This is also a community-based participatory study that actively involved Somali community members in exploring and interpreting the results. This was achieved through regular consultations with the sampled Somali Muslim communities within the UK. Our results contribute to the broader debate on the effect of cultural, religious and social values of marginalised communities on inclusion and widening access policies for higher education. The findings reemphasise that people sharing the same location do not necessarily share the same level of opportunities for higher education because of the intersectionality of race, religion, gender and class. The results also show the complexity of the issue of exclusion and the atheoretical nature of student loans as a financial instrument for improving financial inclusion and widening access to higher education among Somali residents in England.  相似文献   

Knowledge asset similarity and business relational capital gains: evidence from European manufacturing firms     

Andrés Barreneche García  Ahmed Bounfour 《知识管理研究与实践》2014,12(3):246-260

This paper leverages the concept of absorptive capacity to explore whether similar configurations of intellectual capital (IC) are associated with the performance of relational capital in firms. It proposes a novel implementation of graph theory to analyse similarities in knowledge assets. We use Community Innovation Survey data to examine 5813 manufacturing firms in 13 business sectors and 13 European countries. While firms rely on external relations to compensate for a lack of internal assets, we find that a company’s propensity to cooperate in innovation is associated with its own IC profile. In particular, firms with common knowledge assets are more likely to benefit from business relational capital. The main contribution of this study lies in a holistic approach to understanding how similarities in knowledge assets are linked to gains in business relational capital.  相似文献   

Monitoring intellectual capital: a case study of a large company during the recent economic crisis     

Daniel Guevara  Ahmed Bounfour 《知识管理研究与实践》2013,11(2):196-207

Nowadays, companies and organizations are facing a deep economic crisis as a follow-up of the financial crisis that started in 2007. This crisis has affected a great amount of markets and industries around the world. In this context, companies are challenging the way they allocate resources to investments, especially to intangibles. The present research considers this issue based on an empirical work carried out with a large company (called here Global A) and with reference to the cycle approach proposed by Åkerman. General conclusions are derived for how to approach intangibles (intellectual capital) in a downturn context.  相似文献   

The Arab Tradition of Medical Education and its Relationship with the European Tradition     

Al-Sharrah  Yaqoub Ahmed 《Prospects》2003,33(4):413-425

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