What is Happening in the Classroom? A Common–sense Approach to Improving the Quality of Primary Education in Developing Countries

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Common Sense

scholarly journals Plannng primary education to ameliorate the wrenching effects of adjustment

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 108-122
Author(s):  
Joel Babatunde Babalola ◽  
Anne L. Sikwibele
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Government Budget ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Adjustment Programme ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Optimum Utilization

Structural Adjustment Programme has negative effects on participation in primary schooling, funding of education and quality of primary education developing countries. Owing to the declining proportions of government budget to education, the growing number of children to educate and the rigidity of the institutional framework for planning, there has been serious gaps betvveen vision and action in the provision of education. Highlights of the suggested policyframework for improving the planning of primary education to ameliorate the effects of SAP in Nigeria include: expansion of access to schooling, improving equiry in the provision ofeducation, enhancing quality and learning achievements, imp roving teachers' performance, increasing funds and resources and managing them for optimum utilization. Practical activities for carrying out the policies are suggested.

A SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL TO STUDY THE IMPORTANCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES ON QUALITY OF PRIMARY EDUCATION SYSTEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu ◽  
Linet Ozdamar ◽  
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber ◽  
Erik Kropat ◽  
Nader Barsoum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
System Dynamics Model ◽  
Dynamics Model

CREATING WALKING LED TRANSIT STATIONS FOR WOMEN IN MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain ◽  
Nur Farhana Azmi ◽  
Suhaini Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
The Other ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Female User

Transit stations are generally well known as nodes of spaces where percentage of people walking are relatively high. The issue is do more planning is actually given to create walkability. Creating walking led transit stations involves planning of walking distance, providing facilities like pathways, toilets, seating and lighting. On the other hand, creating walking led transit station for women uncover a new epitome. Walking becomes one of the most important forms of mobility for women in developing countries nowadays. Encouraging women to use public transportation is not just about another effort to promote the use of public transportation but also another great endeavour to reduce numbers of traffic on the road. This also means, creating an effort to control accidents rate, reducing carbon emission, improving health and eventually, developing the quality of life. Hence, in this paper, we sought first to find out the factors that motivate women to walk at transit stations in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey with 562 female user of Light Railway Transit (LRT) was conducted at LRT stations along Kelana Jaya Line. Both built and non-built environment characteristics, particularly distance, safety and facilities were found as factors that are consistently associated with women walkability. With these findings, the paper highlights the criteria  which are needed to create and make betterment of transit stations not just for women but also for walkability in general.

Developing the culture and discipline of conducting and publishing scientific research: Guiding principles

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Daniel Obeng-Ofori
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Weekly Schedule ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Heavy Workload ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Mentoring System ◽  
Critical Constraints

The pressure to publish is a fact of life in academia. Academics are expected to demonstrate that they are active researchersand that their work has been vetted by peers and disseminated in reputable scholarly forums. In practice, however, a numberof critical constraints hamper effective publication of scientific research in most developing countries. These include lackof effective mentoring system, poor facilities and inadequate funding for effective research and heavy workload where toomuch time and effort are spent in teaching, grading, meetings and other non-academic activities. In spite of these seeminglyinsurmountable challenges, with proper planning and commitment, one can still conduct research and publish to advanceones career and exchange of knowledge. The paper discusses the critical guiding principles in scientific writing and publishingin an unfriendly research environment as pertains in most universities in the developing world. The overriding principle isto cultivate the discipline of scientific writing consciously and follow it through religiously. This could be achieved if time isallocated for scientific writing in the scheme of weekly schedule of activities and made to be functional through meticulousplanning and commitment. Equally important is to avoid procedural mistakes in scientific writing. While the quality of theresearch is the single most important factor in determining whether an article will be published, a number of proceduralmistakes can help tip the balance against its publication. It should also be noted that when a manuscript is submitted to ascholarly journal, there are two audiences to satisfy: first the editor and external reviewers, and then the journal’s readers.That first group must be satisfied to create the opportunity to appeal to the second. Thus, familiarity with the style and tone ofthe specific journal is crucial.

IN SEARCH OF EDUCATIONAL STRATEGY FOR UKRAINE

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viсtor Ognevyuk
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
School Management ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
The World ◽  
Management School ◽  
Global Competitiveness Report

The article deals with the world rating of Ukrainian educational sphere according to The Global Competitiveness Report and UNESCO Science Report. It shows comparative indices of Ukraine in contrast to the other countries of these world ratings according to the “Quality of primary education”, “Penetration of primary education”, “Penetration of secondary education”, “Quality of secondary education”, “Quality of education in Sciences”, “Quality of school management”, “School access to the internet” and others. The article also defines strategic directions of reforming Ukrainian education system to improve its position in the world international ratings.

The Baroque and Philosophy

2018 ◽  
pp. 601-622
Author(s):  
Michael Moriarty
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
The Self ◽  
Early Modern Philosophy ◽  
The World ◽  
Baroque Art ◽  
Art And Architecture

Although the concept “baroque” is less obviously applicable to philosophy than to the visual arts and music, early modern philosophy can be shown to have connections with baroque culture. Baroque style and rhetoric are employed or denounced in philosophical controversies, to license or discredit a certain style of philosophizing. Philosophers engage with themes current in baroque literature (the mad world, the world as a stage, the quest for the self) and occasionally transform these into philosophical problems, especially of an epistemological kind (are the senses reliable? how far is our access to reality limited by our perspective?) Finally, the philosophies of Malebranche and Berkeley, with their radical challenges to so-called common sense, and their explanation of conventional understandings of the world as based on illusion, have something of the disturbing quality of baroque art and architecture.

scholarly journals A review of aluminium phosphide poisoning and a flowchart to treat it

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behrooz Hashemi-Domeneh ◽  
Nasim Zamani ◽  
Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam ◽  
Mitra Rahimi ◽  
Shahin Shadnia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Pesticide Poisoning ◽  
Modified Delphi ◽  
Aluminium Phosphide ◽  
The World

Abstract The use of pesticides such as aluminium phosphide (AlP) has increased in the recent years and improved the quantity and quality of agricultural products in a number of developing countries. The downside is that AlP causes severe chronic and acute health effects that have reached major proportions in countries such as India, Iran, Bangladesh, and Jordan. Nearly 300,000 people die due to pesticide poisoning in the world every year. Poisoning with AlP accounts for many of these deaths. Unfortunately, at the same time, there is no standard treatment for it. The aim of this article is to give a brief review of AlP poisoning and propose a treatment flowchart based on the knowledge gained so far. For this purpose we reviewed all articles on the management of AlP poisoning published from 2000 till now. Using a modified Delphi design, we have designed a handy flowchart that could be used as a guide for AlP poisoning management of patients in emergency centres.

scholarly journals Specialization-Specific Course Assessments Integrated for Program Assessment

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qurban A. Memon ◽  
Adnan Harb ◽  
Shakeel Khoja
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Program Assessment ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Software Program ◽  
Program Application

The program assessment process combines assessments from individual courses to generate final program assessment to match accreditation benchmarks. In developing countries, industrial environment is not diversified to allow graduating engineers to seek jobs in all disciplines or specializations of an engineering program. Hence, it seems necessary to seek evolution of an engineering program assessment for specialized requirements of the industry. This paper describes how specialization-specific courses’ assessments are grouped per requirements and then integrated towards overall program assessment. A software program application is developed to automate this development to reduce assessment work and show equivalently as integration of specialization-specific assessments per outcome per term. The implementation also shows how outcomes are integrated per specialization-specific courses in order to judge the implementation of the program assessment. This effort is expected to help stake holders of the program to judge evolution and quality of specialization tracks vis-à-vis expectations of the local industry.

Pedagogical Interaction of a Preschool Organization, Family and School in Preparing Children for Schooling

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
A. Shakhmanova ◽  
E. Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
Readiness To Learn

The article examines an important and complex stage in the development of a child's personality during his transition from preschool childhood to school. The concept of "a child's readiness to learn at school" is characterized, the types of readiness and their content are highlighted, correlated with the new tasks of modern primary education. Particular attention is paid to the issues of well-functioning interaction of the preschool educational organization, family and school as a condition for improving the quality of preparing children for schooling. The essence of the concepts "interaction", "pedagogical interaction" is revealed, and the functions of all participants in the studied period of the educational process are determined.

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