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Gender research seeks answers on South African campuses

(IDRC) By Keane J. Shore, July 21, 2003. "In South Africa, post-secondary education is a privilege, and many students currently enroled in universities are the first in their families to reach for it. Degrees are also one of only a few tickets to upward mobility, and students endure enormous economic and personal pressures to graduate ... Succeeding on campus means facing powerfully entrenched ideas tied to gender and heterosexuality, according to Bennett."

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-33995-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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Kufunda Village

Kufunda Village, located in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, is a learning, training and experimentation centre in creating sustainable communities. It was started in February 2002 by Marianne Knuth, a young woman of Danish and Zimbabwean origin, to develop the capacity for self-reliance of targeted rural communities. Kufunda Village aims at the creation of locally rooted solutions to community self-reliance challenges, through the use of people's own imagination, collaboration and resources.

http://www.kufunda.org/

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Mother Tongue Education Both Effective and Elusive

A debate about the extent to which mother tongue schooling improves the quality of education is emerging in Kenya, with certain experts campaigning for children's mother tongue to be used as the language of instruction in schools. Kenya, as with a number of other countries across Africa, has a majority of its children going through an education system that sometimes fails to provide instruction in the language they speak at home - which is the language they understand best. This, it has been said, contributes to illiteracy and results in people entering the workforce with inadequate skills. (Joyce Mulama, IPS News Agency, Apr 20, 2006)

http://ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=32958

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Teens Teach Parents New Family Farming Techniques

This article talks about the effects and challenges on the Semeando Programme, an innovative rural education programme in which students bring home new agricultural techniques to teach their parents, in an effort to halt urban migration. (Roberto Villar Belmonte, IPS, 30 August 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34518

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Access to Environmental Information: How can better practice be achieved in the Latin American Context

Traditionally, in Latin American countries, environmental management policy has been drawn up and implemented in a highly centralised manner, without the involvement of civil society. However, over the last decade, awareness of the importance of including the general public in environmental management has increased. This has generated significant reforms fostering a different relationship between civil society and State bodies. In spite of this, several obstacles continue to conspire against citizen participation in environmental management.

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=11029IIED&n=67&l=319&c=natres

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Achieving Universal and Basic Secondary Education: How Much Will It Cost?

What would it cost to provide every child in the world with a high quality primary and secondary education? This report reviews World Bank, UNICEF, and UNESCO estimates of the annual costs of achieving universal primary enrollment by 2015. It also offers a pioneering estimate of the cost of providing enough secondary school spaces for all children of secondary school age. (Melissa Binder, Paul Glewwe, Meng Zhao, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006)

http://www.amacad.org/publications/ubase_UniversalEd.aspx

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Act to end Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel's Schools

Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel make up nearly one-quarter of Israel's schoolchildren. Yet Palestinian Arab children receive an education that is inferior in nearly every respect when compared to Jewish children. Write to the Israeli Minister of Education. Contact key members of the Israeli Knesset.

http://hrw.org/campaigns/israel/schools/index.htm

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Alternative Basic Education in African Countries: Emerging from Conflict; Issues of Policy, Co-ordination and Access [pdf]

Once conflict has ended in an African state, the need to reconstruct basic education becomes a priority. While post-conflict states share some common issues, they each attempt this reconstruction within a particular context. How can they incorporate different perspectives on issues critical to education reconstruction? What lessons can they learn in relation to funding, management and access, especially in relation to Alternative Basic Education (ABE)? (Carolyne Dennis and Alicia Fentiman, DIFD, 2007)

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/education-emerging-conflict67.pdf

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Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education [Available in PDF & Word]

In a world in which poverty, social prejudice, and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls' access to school. This book presents a vision of a transformational education which would promote social change, enable girls to achieve their full potential, and contribute to the creation of a just and democratic society. Contributors to this book examine the extent and causes of gender-based inequality in education; analyse government policies and their implications for women's empowerment; and report on original field-work in a range of local contexts where gender-equality initiatives have flourished. In their introduction and their concluding chapter, Sheila Aikman and Elaine Unterhalter consider the challenges that confront policy makers, practitioners, campaigners, and researchers if they are to make real progress towards gender equality in education, in the context of the Millennium Development Goals. Sheila Aikman (Global Education Policy Adviser, Oxfam GB) and Elaine Unterhalter (Senior Lecturer in Education, University of London Institute of Education) are joint co-ordinators of Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, a project arising from a partnership between Oxfam, the Institute of Education, and the British government's Department for International Development (DFID). Oxfam UK.

http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?isb=0855985291

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Beyond Awareness Campaign: AIDS Mural Project Handbook

This illustrated booklet provides information on mural painting with a focus on experiences and images from the 1995-1996 seven-city mural project in South Africa, and is a guide for people interested in developing an AIDS mural. (CADRE, November 2004)

http://www.cadre.org.za/BAC/BACpdf/murals.pdf

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Brazil takes affirmative action in Higher Education

Universities in Brazil have begun introducing affirmative action programmes to combat accusations that the national higher education system is elitist and discriminatory. The country has the world's fourth largest student population in the tertiary sector and the number of university students has grown by around a fifth in the past five years to 3 million. However, only 8% of 25 to 64-year-olds have attended university, and campaigners say bias in the system prevents black pupils and those educated in state schools from securing a place. By Rodrigo Davies, Monday August 4, 2003, The Guardian.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1012156,00.html

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Bring on the World teaching resources

A series of free online teaching activities designed for 9-11 year olds, Bring on the World uses football as a springboard to explore global issues. Different teaching and learning methodologies are employed to engage students while emphasising foundation subjects, literacy and English. (Oxfam)

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/

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Building Human Rights Communities in Education

Building Human Rights Communities in Education is an initiative developed by Amnesty International, the Development Resource Centre, the Human Rights Commission, the Children's Commissioner, and the Peace Foundation. The Initiative has been developed to play a lead role in helping us as a country to meet our educational human rights aspirations and obligations. Its vision is that schools and early childhood centres will become communities where human rights are known, promoted and lived.

http://www.rightsined.org.nz/

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Centre for Global Education

The Centre for Global Education (CGE) was established in 1986 by eight development agencies to provide education services that will enhance awareness of international development issues. Its central remit is to challenge dominant stereotypes and commonly held perceptions of developing countries which are prevalent in our society.

http://www.centreforglobaleducation.com/

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Children out of School: Measuring Exclusion from Primary Education [PDF]

One hundred and fifteen million primary school-age children are out of school according to a joint UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)/UNICEF global estimate. This number equals 18% - or almost one in five - of the children worldwide in this age group. And many of the children who are in school may never complete their primary education or finish it without attaining even basic literacy skills. These figures are from the new report, entitled Children Out of School: Measuring Exclusion from Primary Education, which presents new estimates and explores the characteristics of children out of school. It provides a single UNESCO/UNICEF source for global and regional estimates of out-of-school children based on an improved methodology and the integration of household survey data. The report uses survey data from 80 countries to explore child and household characteristics and factors associated with schooling status and presents compelling evidence of disparities due to household wealth, place of residence and sex based on survey data, e.g. more than three times as many children from the poorest households are out of school compared to those from the richest households - 38% compared to 12%.

http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=6427_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

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Coalition For Self-Learning

Mission Statement: The Coalition for Self-Learning envisions and co-creates a world of cooperative life-long learning communities. Composition: The Coalition is a matrix of individuals and groups, networking freely and acting in concert in mutual support of the Mission Statement. Principles and Goals: 1. Life-long learning communities are diverse, open places where individuals develop meaningful ways to enhance, enrich, honor and celebrate each other, families, communities and society, acting as a significant element in an emerging cooperative commonwealth. 2. The Coalition promotes ideas and actions for creating learning communities. 3. The Coalition expands and advances the relevance of learning to societal change. 4. The Coalition explores, develops, disseminates and implements new concepts for organizational systems that result in the equitable sharing of power and wealth, well-being and self-sustaining conviviality of the Earth and all its life forms. 5. The Coalition demonstrates that the Internet is a powerful tool for organizing actions, learning creative concepts and engaging constructive discussion.

http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org

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Communities speak out : hear our voice : the vitality of official language minority communities

In the fall of 2006, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages undertook a study on the vitality of official language minority communities. This study incorporated two previous studies conducted in the fall of 2006 regarding health care and immigration (House of Commons, Canada, May 2007).

http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?COM=10472&Lang=1&SourceId=206228

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Computers in secondary schools in developing countries: An analysis of costs

This research is mainly concerned with the costs of computers in schools in developing countries. It starts with a brief overview of the information revolution and its consequences. It then briefly examines some of the arguments for the use of computers in schools in developing countries, before reviewing previous work undertaken on the costs of such provision. An analysis of this literature indicates that the costs of equipment (hardware and software) may account for only 16-20% of the total cost of computer provision (excluding salaries) over five years.

http://www.schoolnetafrica.net/fileadmin/resources/Computers_in_Secondary_schools.pdf

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Confronting the Contradictions [pdf]

How the economic policies of the International Monetary Fund are forcing poor countries to either freeze, or seriously curtail, spending on teachers (ActionAid, April 2007).

http://www.actionaid.org/assets/pdf/AAConf_Contradictions_Final2.pdf

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Creating Participatory Radio Drama with Children

Originally published as a chapter in a Portuguese language manual produced for the National Children's Radio Seminar in Mozambique, this English-language guide for facilitators aims to help create radio dramas with children.

http://www.cmfd.org/cmfdpubs/CMFDChildrenGuidetoParticipatoryRadioforFacilitators.pdf

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Debt and education

The ongoing debt crisis in poor countries has had and is still having a severe impact on access to education. This briefing explores the impact of debt and debt cancellation on education in poor countries. (Jubilee Debt Campaign UK, April 2007)

http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/?lid=3198

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Decay, crowding dim Africa's once-proud alma maters

In universities across West and East Africa, there is the same litany of complaints about poorly maintained facilities that have not kept pace with a crush of new students. Stories abound of lecture halls filled to overflowing, of professors straining to be heard by classes of 2,000 students crammed into rooms designed for less than half that number. (Reuters Alertnet, 15 November 2006)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12494567.htm

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Denied Status, Denied Education: Children of North Korean Women in China

This 23-page report documents how such children live without legal identity or access to elementary education. These children live in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Jilin Province, northeast China (near its border with North Korea). Some are from North Korea while others were born in China and have Chinese fathers and North Korean mothers (Human Rights Watch, 12 April 2008).

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/northkorea0408/

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Development Education Journal

The Development Education Journal offers a forum for debate about development education theory and practice in the UK and overseas. The Journal takes the widest possible view of development education to include public education, the media and campaigns. Contributions are welcome from educators and others with an interest in development education from agencies, DECs, academic institutions, schools, youth work, adult & community education, from Britain and overseas.

http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/pages/jdeved.htm

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Educating girls in Bangladesh: watering a neighbour's tree?

There is an old Bengali saying which observes: 'Caring for a daughter is like watering a neighbour's tree'. It reflects the view that it is a waste of resources to invest in a daughter who will be 'lost' to another family through marriage. It is one of the arguments that have been used in the past to justify girls' exclusion from school in Bangladesh. However, various recent education initiatives by both government and NGOs have placed stronger emphasis on girls' education, leading to a widely praised increase in access over the last ten years. They include a secondary stipend programme which started on a small scale in 1982 and became a nationwide programme in 1994. The expansion of girls' education in Bangladesh - and how it is perceived - is the subject of this study, with the government's secondary Female Stipend Programme (FSP) used as a case study. Janet Raynor

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/resources/downloads/BA_6.pdf

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