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Download full textWinthrop, Rebecca; Ziegler, Lauren; Handa, Rhea; Fakoya, Foluyinka – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2019
Humans are born with the natural ability to gain skills through play. Children learn about social norms, roles and responsibilities, and language through curiosity-driven, playful interactions and activities. Learning through play harnesses the power of children's imagination and inspires active engagement with the material. The Center for…
Descriptors: Play, Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Student Centered Learning
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Direct linkCrea, Thomas M.; McFarland, Mary – International Review of Education, 2015
Refugees experience limited access to adequate education at all levels, but opportunities for higher education are especially lacking. Yet, evidence suggests that education plays an important protective role in helping refugee individuals and communities cope with their daily existence during protracted waiting periods, and the United Nations…
Descriptors: Refugees, Access to Education, Pilot Projects, Higher Education
Piper, Benjamin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
If children do not learn how to read in the first few years of primary school, they at greater risk of dropping out. It is therefore crucial to identify and test interventions that have the potential of making a large impact, can be implemented quickly, and are affordable to be taken to scale by the Kenyan government. This paper presents the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Multilingualism, Skill Development
Lukuyu, B.; Place, F.; Franzel, S.; Kiptot, E. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: This paper assesses the effectiveness of volunteer farmer trainers in promoting adoption of agricultural technologies in western Kenya. Specifically, the purpose was to assess the type of information they disseminated, farmer trainers' characteristics desirable to farmer trainees, and how trainees evaluate farmer trainers.…
Descriptors: Trainers, Agricultural Occupations, Volunteers, Agricultural Engineering
Colclough, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty in the developing world? This book arises out of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Studies, Poverty, Educational Research
Ayere, Mildred A.; Odera, Florence Yukabet; Agak, John Odwar – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
To date, less than ten percent of secondary schools in Kenya offer computer studies as a subject in the curriculum despite its perceived role in the nation's socio-economic development. The few schools that have an Information Communication Technology (ICT) programme limit the number of candidates who take up the subject, considering it a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Secondary Schools, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
