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Amanda Datnow; Vicki Park; Donald J. Peurach; James P. Spillane – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022
In anticipation of the United Nations Transforming Education Summit in September 2022, this report explores the work of building and (re)building education systems to support holistic student development. It focuses specifically on the journeys of seven education systems--situated in high-, middle-, and low-middle-income countries with democratic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Holistic Approach, Educational Development
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Sriprakash, Arathi; Maithreyi, R.; Kumar, Akash; Sinha, Pallawi; Prabha, Ketaki – Comparative Education, 2020
Global education agendas frequently draw on the construct of 'school readiness', indexing the developmental trajectories of children to the expectations of school systems. Through in-depth ethnographic research in a village in Bihar, India, this paper examines how normative discourses of 'school readiness' govern family strategies for early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Rural Areas, Early Childhood Education
Menon, I. C. – New Frontiers in Education, 1975
Noting the major objectives of India's Fifth Five Year Plan, including emphasis on cultivation of moral and spiritual values in students, the author discusses India's situation in comparison with the development of other nations and analyzes the question of when or how individual enlightenment affects large groups of people or the development of a…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Responsibility, Higher Education