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Intended to help policymakers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, make appropriate use of multigrade teaching strategies, and to support these with the necessary policies in teacher training, curriculum, and school management.
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This report discusses policies and practices that shape quality and equity in early childhood education and care. It examines how the work environment, including the educational background of staff, and the policies that shape teaching approaches affect the quality of the education provided to...
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Main description: "Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic...
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The theme of The World Development Report 2007 is youth - young people between the ages of 12 to 24. As this population group seeks identity and independence, they make decisions that affect not only their own well-being, but that of others, and they do this in a rapidly changing demographic and...
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Introduction -- What is inequality? -- Why does inequality exist? -- Systemic causes of inequality -- From decreasing to increasing inequality -- Financialised economies -- Austerity and individualisation -- Inequalities in the cities -- Combating inequality -- Concluding summary.
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This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness. Its main focus is on the web of social relations that structure the everyday life of young people, for instance by providing resources and tools of solving problems, exerting...
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Some 15 to 30 per cent of our children and youth are at risk of failing in school where learning and behaviour problems touch ever younger children. In many countries with very different political and cultural backgrounds, these challenges are being met by increasing the co-ordination of...
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