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File WP 1: A review of the concept of quality in education: perspectives from Ghana
This working paper reviews literature on education quality from Ghana, as well as from elsewhere in Africa, Europe and the US. It particularly focuses on ...
File WP 2: Research on the quest for education quality indicators: issues, discourse and methodology
This working paper reviews literature and research on education quality indicators, suggesting a taxonomy of these which identifies factors and variables to ...
File WP 3: The concept of quality in education: a review of the 'international' literature on the concept of quality in education
This working paper reviews key documents influencing the understanding of educational quality in low income countries amongst international agencies and ...
File WP 8: The range and extent of school effects in SACMEQ II school systems
This working paper describes in detail initial analyses of SACMEQ II data, using multilevel modelling techniques, to develop general models of school ...
File WP 7: Research evidence of school effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa
This working paper discusses the history and insights of school effectiveness research (SER) from both developed and developing countries. It raises the ...
File WP 5: A three-tier citizenship: can the state in Tanzania guarantee linguistic human rights?
This working paper explores how the concept of linguistic citizenship can be applied to Tanzania in terms of bilingual education delivery and addressing issues ...
File WP 6: Implementing Curriculum Change: Literature Reviews; South Africa, Rwanda and Pakistan
This working paper reviews literature in South Africa, Rwanda and Pakistan on curriculum change, gender equity and poverty alleviation, including: curriculum ...
File WP 9: Examining educational leadership and quality in developing countries
This working paper examines issues facing primary school leaders in developing countries. It examines how 'educational quality' is delineated, and analyses ...
File WP 10: Education quality: research priorities and approaches in the global era
This working paper outlines the approach and rationale underpinning EdQual's research programme. It critiques mainstream conceptualisations of quality, ...
File WP 13: The education millennium development goal beyond 2015: prospects for quality and learners
This working paper critiques a 2006 proposal by three World Bank economists for a Millennium Learning Goal (MLG) to replace the education Millennium ...
File WP 14: Comparative perspectives in creating gender awareness: Stories from Elementary Mathematics Classrooms in Pakistan
This working paper focuses on gender awareness issues as a dimension of addressing education quality in Pakistan from the perspective of social justice. It ...
File WP 17: School leadership and social justice: evidence from Ghana and Tanzania
This working paper focuses on notions of ‘social justice’ in an African educational context, reporting on a small-scale research project with primary ...
File WP 18: Social justice, capabilities and the quality of education in low income countries
This working paper critiques the human capital and human rights approaches framing debates on education quality in low income countries, setting out an ...
File WP 19: Education and indigenous justice in Africa
This working paper examines how indigenous peoples in Africa are re-defining education through strategies aimed at recognition of rights and social justice, ...
File WP 21: Leadership and management of change for quality improvement: baseline study in selected districts of Tanzania mainland
This working paper presents a baseline study of what public primary schools’ head teachers consider as the role of school leadership and management in ...
File WP 22: Applying the Capability Approach to School Improvement Interventions in Tanzania
This working paper investigates how the Capabilities Approach (CA) can be applied to the modality of formal schooling, particularly regarding school ...
File WP 11: Initiatives to improve the quality of teaching and learning: a review of recent literature
This working paper reviews recent literature on teaching and learning process quality in schools in low income countries, illustrated in initiatives to improve ...
File WP 15: Bridging the digital divide? Educational challenges and opportunities in Rwanda
This working paper argues that, despite efforts to provide Rwandan teachers, learners and communities with opportunities to take advantage of ICT’s potential, ...
File WP 16: Inclusive education: a step towards social justice
This working paper approaches inclusive education as a means towards social justice and social inclusion. Drawing on an ongoing project on developing an index ...
File WP 20: Designing and planning schools for pre-school feeding programmes in Africa: a continental success story?
This working paper considers if the infrastructure and associated resources used to deliver pre-school feeding schemes in primary schools in South Africa and ...
File WP 23: Social and economic effects on primary pupils' reading achievement: findings from Southern and East Africa
This working paper investigates what material resources in the home and social influences give primary school students an advantage in learning to read by ...
File WP 4: Ethics in qualitative research: issues and challenge
This working paper identifies five key principles of ethical research around consent, confidentiality, anonymity, harm and reciprocity, discussing their ...
File WP 24: Which in and out of school factors explain variations in learning across different socio economic groups? Findings from South Africa.
The work presented here investigates which pupil background, school context and school resources (human and physical) factors affect individual pupil academic ...
File WP 25: Teaching and Learning in two languages in African classrooms.
This working paper investigates the practices that emerge in teachers who are trying to provide a bilingual education in the absence of central planning and ...
File WP 26: International Partnerships, collaboration and capacity building in educational research: The EdQual experience.
This article reflects critically on the experience of a research consortium made up of academic institutions in UK and sub-Saharan Africa. It analyses ...
File WP 27: Towards a framework for understanding the quality of education.
This working paper sets out the evolution of the overall approach and framework for researching the quality of education in Africa.
File WP 12: Teacher Empowerment through collaborative action research: concepts, possibilities and challenges
This working paper focuses on collaborative action research (CAR) as an approach to teacher empowerment, and issues emerging from experiences with CAR in ...
File WP28: 'Going to Scale': Nurturing the local roots of education innovation in Africa
Start small but think big. Yet, “going to scale”—orchestrated replication— has proved difficult to achieve. This extensive literature review concludes that ...