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International Journal of Educational Development

September 2017 Volume 56, Number 1

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Number of articles: 5

  1. Time to learn? Time allocations among children in South Africa

    Dorrit Posel, School of Economic and Business Sciences, South Africa; Erofili Grapsa, Institute of Social and Economic Research, South Africa

    We investigate the time allocations of children (10–17 years) in South Africa using nationally representative time-diary data. We show that racial variation in time allocations mirrors well... More

    pp. 1-10

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  2. Reaping just what is sown: Low-skills and low-productivity of informal economy workers and the skill acquisition process in developing countries

    Mayowa Abiodun Peter-Cookey & Kanda Janyam

    The objective of this paper is to explore the skill acquisition process of informal economy workers and how it affects their current skills and productivity levels. We used a mixed method and... More

    pp. 11-27

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  3. Policy promise and the reality of community involvement in school-based management in Zambia: Can the rural poor hold schools and teachers to account?

    Taeko Okitsu, Department of Communication and Culture, Japan; D. Brent Edwards, College of Education, United States

    Community participation in school management—and in hiring and firing of teachers in particular—has been actively advocated as an effective reform to improve school and teacher accountability in... More

    pp. 28-41

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  4. Learning in India’s primary schools: How do disparities widen across the grades?

    Benjamin Alcott & Pauline Rose

    Using a large-scale household survey, we investigate how disparities in learning change over the primary school cycle. Even controlling for other factors, household wealth and parental schooling... More

    pp. 42-51

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  5. Role of human and relational capital of universities as underpinnings of a knowledge economy: A structural modelling perspective from north Indian universities

    Niti Chatterji, LMT School of Management, India; Ravi Kiran, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, India

    Authors propose a research framework that human capital of universities enhances performance through the mediating mechanisms of relational capital. Against the backdrop of the report issued by the... More

    pp. 52-61

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