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Educational and indigenous justice in Africa

January 2011

Sheila Aikman

International Journal of Educational Development. 31 (1), pp. 15-22. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.05.007

Capabilities for learning to read: An investigation of social and economic effects for Grade 6 learners in Southern and East Africa

January 2011

Michèle Smith, Angeline M. Barrett

International Journal of Educational Development. 31 (1), pp. 23-36. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.06.006

PB 1: Determinants of Primary Students' Attainment in Africa (994.3 kB)

September 2010

Angeline Barrett, Michelle Smith

This policy brief suggests targeted investment, basic learning resources and skilled school leadership are key in addressing primary attainment in Africa. It draws on EdQual research using data on 17,000 pupils and their teachers in 1000 primary schools across six countries in East and Southern Africa that identified factors in and out of school affecting pupil scores in reading and maths tests.

WP 23: Social and economic effects on primary pupils' reading achievement: findings from Southern and East Africa (1.0 MB)

July 2010

Michèle Smith, Angeline M. Barrett

This working paper investigates what material resources in the home and social influences give primary school students an advantage in learning to read by analysing data collected by the Southern and East African Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality (SACMEQ) in six low income countries and four small middle income states.

New Possibilities for International Partnerships, Collaboration and Capacity Building in Educational Research (187.0 kB)

June 2010

Angeline M. Barrett, Michael Crossley, Hillary Dachi

Paper presented at XIV World Congress, World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES): 'Bordering, re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society'. Istanbul, 14-18 June 2010.

'Researching quality across borders: the EdQual experience' (72.2 kB)

June 2010

Rita Chawla Duggan, Angeline Barrett

Proposal for Symposium on Theme: Demystifying Quality in Education at the XIV World Congress, World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES): 'Bordering, re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society'. Istanbul, 14-18 June 2010.

Proposal (revised): School Effectiveness and Education Quality in East and Southern Africa (SeeQ) (253.5 kB)

April 2008

Proposal for EdQual's SeeQ project, as revised April 2008.

Measuring school quality: developing a model of school effectiveness in sub-Saharan Africa (719.3 kB)

September 2007

Guoxing Yu, Sally Thomas, Angeline. M. Barrett.

Paper presented at 9th UKFIET Conference, University of Oxford, 11-13 September 2007.

Moving towards Bilingual Education in Africa (80.8 kB)

October 2005

John Clegg

Paper in H.Coleman (ed) 2007. Language and Development: Africa and Beyond: edited proceedings from the 7th International Language and Development Conference, Addis Ababa, 26-28 October 2005.