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Education for all in Bangladesh : Where does Bangladesh Stand in Terms of Achieving the EFA Goals by 2015?
Fonte: Washington, DC
Publicador: Washington, DC
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#ACCESS TO EDUCATION#ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION#ACCESS TO SCHOOLING#ACHIEVEMENT TESTS#ADULT LITERACY#ADULT LITERACY RATE#ADULTS#ASSESSING LEARNING OUTCOMES#AVERAGE CLASS SIZE#BASIC EDUCATION#BASIC LITERACY
The objectives of this policy note are
twofold: first, take stock of where Bangladesh stands in
terms of achieving the Education For All (EFA) goals; and
second, suggest policy recommendations that could help
Bangladesh to meet the EFA goals by 2015. The policy note
will focus mainly on: 1) universal primary enrollment for
all children; 2) universal primary completion; 3) gender
parity in education; 4) adult literacy; and 5) quality of
education. This is because these areas can be more
meaningfully analyzed with reasonably reliable information
from various sources. Bangladesh is unlikely to achieve
universal primary enrollment and completion by 2015 if the
current trends in access and completion do not improve.
Progress in school quality is more difficult to assess
because of the lack of systematic assessment and monitoring
of learning achievement results. The government continues to
be the main provider and financer of primary education.
Improving the overall quality of schooling is a pressing
task in order to substantially raise enrollment and help
more children complete primary school with the appropriate
skills in literacy and numeracy. Bangladesh has made
progress towards increasing both primary and secondary
enrollment and has already reached gender parity in both
education levels.
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What Factors Influence World Literacy? Is Africa Different?
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
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#ADDITION#ADULT ILLITERACY#ADULT ILLITERACY RATE#ADULT LITERACY#ADULTS#CENTRAL AMERICA#CHILD MORTALITY#CHILD NUTRITION#DROPPING OUT#ENROLLMENT#ENROLLMENT RATE
Ninety-five percent of the world s illiterate people live in developing countries, and about 70 percent are women. Female illiteracy rates are particularly high in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Niger and Burkina Faso, for example, more than 90 percent of women are illiterate. This paper presents a model of literacy. It shows that the main determinants of worldwide literacy are enrollment rates, average years of schooling of adults, and life expectancy at birth. Income has a weak nonlinear effect, negatively affecting literacy until a threshold level of per-capita income of about $2200 a year is reached and positively affecting literacy thereafter. Finally, African countries do not have a significantly higher literacy rate when controlling for other factors.
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Literacy and Local Governance in a Rural Community : The Experience of Nwodua, Ghana
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
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#ADULT LITERACY#COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE#EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES#HEALTH CARE#INSTRUCTION#LEARNING#LITERACY#LITERACY CENTERS#LITERACY MOVEMENT#LITERACY PROGRAM#LOCAL COMMUNITIES
The note reviews the efforts begun in
1979 by an illiterate farmer from Nwodua, Ghana, to bring
instruction in the ways of a modern society to his
community. The success led to further opportunities in
functional literacy, and soon a full scale adult primary
school was opened, which became the center for a whole
series of local developmental activities. A health care
committee was established, which later guided the creation
of a grinding mill to prepare weaning mixture for infants,
eventually leading the community towards a self-sustaining
food processing industry, and, other initiatives in the area
of agro-forestry soon followed. Increased commerce made it
imperative to upgrade roads infrastructure, to constitute a
vocational-technical center, and develop new innovations to
benefit the poor rural communities. This success lies in the
renewed form of community governance, gradually elaborated
by village authorities, and young participants in the new
initiatives, to provide a basis for managing, and expanding
their activities...
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Romania : Diagnostic Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy, Volume 2. Comparison against Good Practices
Fonte: Washington, DC
Publicador: Washington, DC
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#ACCESS TO EDUCATION#ACCOUNTING#ADULT LITERACY#ADULT POPULATION#AGE GROUP#AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT#AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY#AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS#AGRICULTURAL SECTOR#AGRICULTURAL WAGE#AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
The diagnostic review on consumer
protection and financial literacy in Romania is the fourth
in a World Bank-sponsored pilot program to assess consumer
protection and financial literacy in developing and
middle-income countries. The objective of this review are
three-fold to: (1) refine a set of good practices for
assessing consumer protection and financial literacy,
including financial literacy; (2) conduct a review of the
existing rules and practices in Romania compared to the good
practices; and (3) provide recommendations on ways to
improve consumer protection and financial literacy in
Romania. The diagnostic review was prepared at the request
of National Authority for Consumers Protection (ANPC), whose
request was endorsed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Support was provided by the National Bank of Romania (BNR),
which supervises banks and non-bank credit institutions.
Further assistance was given by supervisory commissions for
securities (CNVM), insurance (CSA) and private pensions
(CSSPP). Volume one notes the importance of consumer
protection and finical literacy...
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Romania : Diagnostic Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy, Volume 1. Key Finding and Recommendations
Fonte: Washington, DC
Publicador: Washington, DC
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#ACCESS TO EDUCATION#ACCOUNTING#ADULT LITERACY#ADULT POPULATION#AGE GROUP#AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT#AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY#AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS#AGRICULTURAL SECTOR#AGRICULTURAL WAGE#AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
The diagnostic review on consumer
protection and financial literacy in Romania is the fourth
in a World Bank-sponsored pilot program to assess consumer
protection and financial literacy in developing and
middle-income countries. The objective of this review are
three-fold to: (1) refine a set of good practices for
assessing consumer protection and financial literacy,
including financial literacy; (2) conduct a review of the
existing rules and practices in Romania compared to the good
practices; and (3) provide recommendations on ways to
improve consumer protection and financial literacy in
Romania. The diagnostic review was prepared at the request
of National Authority for Consumers Protection (ANPC), whose
request was endorsed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Support was provided by the National Bank of Romania (BNR),
which supervises banks and non-bank credit institutions.
Further assistance was given by supervisory commissions for
securities (CNVM), insurance (CSA) and private pensions
(CSSPP). Volume one notes the importance of consumer
protection and finical literacy...
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Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes : Lessons from Cognitive Research for Developing Countries
Fonte: Banco Mundial
Publicador: Banco Mundial
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#ABE#ADULT BASIC EDUCATION#ADULT EDUCATION#ADULT ILLITERACY#ADULT LITERACY#ADULT LITERACY INSTRUCTION#BASIC EDUCATION#BASIC SKILLS#BIOLOGY#CLIENT COUNTRIES#COMPLEXITY
Despite the existence of about one
billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs
make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they
remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary
education. Though dropout and course completion rates
improved in the 1990s, the outcomes of literacy instruction
are still modest and may have improved little since the
1970s. The results may disappoint governments and donors who
expect that once taught, people will have usable skills and
remain literate. The modest results make it hard to increase
coverage and to argue for increased expenditures for this
sector. The results may be due to inefficient instruction
but also to the structure of human memory, which has
important implications for adult literacy acquisition. The
need to learn the rapid recognition of complex patterns
poses problems that are not apparent to people who became
expert readers in their childhood.
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Skill Development in India : The Vocational Education and Training System
Fonte: Washington, DC
Publicador: Washington, DC
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#ACADEMIC SKILLS#ACCESS TO CAPITAL#ACCESS TO CREDIT#ACCESS TO SECONDARY EDUCATION#ACCREDITATION#ACCREDITATION SCHEMES#ADULT LITERACY#ADULT LITERACY RATE#ADULTS#ADVANCED TRAINING#APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING
This paper stresses that despite the
fact that India is a fast developing economy difficulties
have led the Government to conclude that far more needs to
be done to engender more employment opportunities for the
majority of Indians, to enable them to participate in the
benefits of growth and to contribute to that growth. To do
this they must have education and training that equips them
for the labor market. One of the sources of the skilled
workforce is the vocational education and training system.
However, the government realizes that the system is not
being able to appropriately respond to the needs of the
labor market. A key issue, then, is what
reforms/interventions are needed to improve the
effectiveness of the system. Answering that question is far
from easy and this paper attempts to provide some options
for doing so. On the one hand India faces the future with
its changing realities; on the other hand it must deal with
the nature of its established traditions and structures.
This paper has laid out some key reforms that must be
undertaken in different areas to make the vocational
education and vocational training systems more responsive to
the needs of the labor market. The reform agenda is fairly
comprehensive and all the reforms cannot be implemented
immediately. Given this...
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Teaching Adults to Read Better and Faster : Results from an Experiment in Burkina Faso
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
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Two cognitively oriented methods were
tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read
more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of
increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological
awareness training to help connect letters to speech.
Learners were given reading tests and a computerized
reaction time test. Although the literacy courses were
shortened by the arrival of rains and government delays, the
piloted methods helped adults read better than those in the
standard "control" classes. Learners enrolled in
the experimental classes performed better on the outcome
tests than did learners enrolled in control classes. Ninety
percent of the possible comparisons between treatment
classes and control classes favored classes receiving
treatments, and 72 percent of the measurements in favor of
treatments were statistically significant. The evidence
suggests that phonological awareness training is
particularly effective in situations where the training
period was short, and that rapid reading was more
advantageous in longer training situations. Overall...
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Demand and Supply of Skills in Ghana : How Can Training Programs Improve Employment?
Fonte: Washington, DC: World Bank
Publicador: Washington, DC: World Bank
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#ACADEMIC DEGREES#ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE#ACADEMIC SKILLS#ACCREDITATION#ACHIEVEMENT#ADULT LITERACY#ADULT LITERACY PROGRAMS#AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION#ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY#APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING#APPROACHES TO EDUCATION
Ghana has a youthful population of 24
million and has shown impressive gains in economic growth
and in poverty reduction over the last two decades. The
necessary sustained growth requires three critical steps:
(1) increase productivity in the strategic economic sectors,
(2) diversify the economy, and (3) expand employment.
Raising the level and range of skills in the country
provides a key contribution to these core drivers of
sustained growth. Skills development in Ghana encompasses
foundational skills (literacy, numeracy), transferable and
soft skills, and technical and vocational skills. These
skills are acquired throughout life through formal
education, training, and higher education; on the job
through work experience and professional training; through
family and community; and via the media. This report focuses
on one segment of Ghana s skills development system: formal
and informal technical and vocational education and training
(TVET) at the pre-tertiary level. Although TVET alone does
not guarantee productivity gains or job creation...
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Jordan Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2013
Fonte: Washington, DC
Publicador: Washington, DC
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Human Development in Jordan has
witnessed significant progress over the past two decades, in
line with Jordan s vision to become a regional leader
through leveraging its strong human capital base into a
skills, knowledge and innovation driven economy. Evidence of
progress on this front is provided by the advancement of the
country s human development and education indicators.
Between 1980 and 2011, the Human Development Index (HDI)
value increased by 29 percent, the adult literacy rate
reached 92.6 percent; the primary school completion rate hit
100 percent and combined gross enrolment reached 79 percent.
In the decade prior to the global financial slowdown of 2008
and the subsequent political unrest in the region, Jordan
experienced rapid economic growth, outperforming the MENA average.
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Parental Human Capital and Effective School Management
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Trabalho em Andamento
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#SKILLS#FORMAL EDUCATION SYSTEM#PRIMARY STUDENTS#BASIC EDUCATION#FORMAL EDUCATION#TEACHERS#EDUCATION AUTHORITIES#SCHOOL POLICY#STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES#ILLITERACY#NUMBER OF SCHOOLS
Education systems in developing
countries are often centrally managed in a top-down
structure. In environments where schools have different
needs and where localized information plays an important
role, empowerment of the local community may be attractive,
but low levels of human capital at the local level may
offset gains from local information. This paper reports the
results of a four-year, large-scale experiment that provided
a grant and comprehensive school management training to
principals, teachers, and community representatives in a set
of schools. To separate the effect of the training from the
grant, a second set of schools received the grant only with
no training. A third set of schools served as a control
group and received neither intervention. Each of 273 Gambian
primary schools were randomized to one of the three groups.
The program was implemented through the government education
system. Three to four years into the program, the full
intervention led to a 21 percent reduction in student
absenteeism and a 23 percent reduction in teacher
absenteeism...
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The realities of Indigenous adult literacy acquisition and practice: implications for capacity development in remote communities
Fonte: Universidade Nacional da Austrália
Publicador: Universidade Nacional da Austrália
Tipo: Working/Technical Paper
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#welfare dependency#remote communities#indigenous education#ethnographic approach#adult literacy Australia#Indigenous communities
The future sustainability of remote communities is being questioned with increasing frequency. The current state of welfare dependency is fragile. Significant work is being undertaken to develop the capacity of Indigenous communities to govern their own services and adult literacy is clearly seen as a major factor in the participation of Indigenous people in community development and the capacity building processes. Yet little research on adult literacy practices and competence in remote Indigenous communities has taken place in Australia. This paper reports on findings from a collaborative study involving two remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, one in the Top End and the other in the Central Desert. The project, involving a collaboration between the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research and Central Australian Remote Health Development Services, used an ethnographic approach, drawing on ideas developed internationally by anthropologists and linguists associated with the New Literacy Studies to explore the social context of literacy acquisition and use in these communities. In this paper we analyse the findings and explore the implications for training, employment and capacity development in remote Indigenous communities.; no
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When Governments Get Creative : Adult Literacy in Senegal
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Brief; Publications & Research
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#EDUCATION & TRAINING#ADULT LITERACY#ADULT EDUCATION#CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS#VILLAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEES#LANGUAGE & EDUCATION#CIDA#READING TRAINING#MATHEMATICS EDUCATION ADULT ILLITERACY#ADULT ILLITERACY RATE#ADULT LITERACY
This report summarizes lessons learned
and key policy findings on the World Bank's work in
education in Senegal. In 1993, Senegal established a new
policy for literacy programs based on partnership between
civil society and the state: the state ensures policy
leadership, overall coordination, monitoring and evaluation;
the providers (civil society organizations, such as
non-profits, village associations, and language
associations) implement local literacy activities; an
independent contract-managing agency handles contracts and
rapid transfer of funds to providers. The World Bank
financed project achieved the following results, which were
similar to those achieved by the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA): about 190,000 participants, of
which 87 percent were women, enrolled in literacy classes
over a five-year period; capacity in government and civil
society organizations improved consistently; the dropout
rate averaged 15 percent (much lower than for most adult
literacy programs); most participants achieved learning
mastery levels for reading (although not for math). The
results of the literacy training exceeded target levels.
Learning outcomes systematically improved as a result of two
factors: providers became more experienced; and research led
to improved procedures. The report notes that weak
monitoring and evaluation contributed to the following
shortcomings: re-financing of low-quality providers; lack of
information about impact. As a result of these problems...
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Nepal : Priorities and Strategies for Education Reform
Fonte: Washington, DC
Publicador: Washington, DC
ENGLISH; EN_US
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#ACHIEVEMENT#ACHIEVEMENTS#ADDITION#ADDITIONAL FUNDS#ADDITIONAL RESOURCES#ADULT ILLITERACY#ADULT LITERACY#AGE GROUP#AGED#ARTS#BENEFICIAL IMPACT
The modern education system in Nepal is
one of the youngest in the world and operates within a
political democracy that was established only in 1991. While
parts of the system have been well designed and are
implemented effectively, others remain in an embryonic stage
and are only partly effective. This report identifies a
number of key constraints which currently are hindering the
development of the system and suggests priorities and
strategies for organizing and managing the required changes.
Six aspects of the current status are highlighted: Levels of
literacy and educational attainment remain low. While access
to all levels of the education system has increased
considerably, participation remains unequal across income
and social groups and the benefits of public subsidies are
inequitably distributed. The quality of education is low.
High repetition and dropout rates throughout the system are
wasting valuable resources. The system does not serve the
labor market well. This report recommends the government to:
ensure within the coming decade that all children enroll in
and complete a five year primary education while developing
the structures and processes for expanding a strengthened
basic cycle of schooling for eight years...
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Mali - Indigenous Knowledge : Blending the New and the Old; Mali : les savoirs locaux, combiner l'ancien et le nouveau
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Brief; Publications & Research
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#INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE#EVALUATION RESEARCH#INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE#ADULT LITERACY#RURAL DEVELOPMENT#MARKETING MANAGEMENT#MARKETING OF FARM PRODUCE#COMMERCIALIZATION#TAX ACCOUNTING#SOCIAL CAPITAL#BASIC EDUCATION
Based on research from an evaluation of
functional adult literacy during the late 70s, focused on
peanut-growing in the western region of Mali, results
demonstrated that while literacy programs only attained its
full quantitative objectives in just a few localities, the
vast majority of participating communities, had nonetheless
managed to produce a nucleus of literate people. These
people, in charge of marketing commercial crops, including
monitoring tax bills, soon enhanced the magnitude of
literacy's uses in the rural environment. However,
indigenous knowledge, which is social in nature, and
culturally transmitted, comes forth in social situations,
where groups of people resolve their perceptions, or
communicate their wisdom across generations. The note thus
focuses on the efforts by the Bank, and the Ministry of
Education in supporting methods, and new directions for
non-formal basic education, premised on the notion that
literacy should be a starting point for training, relevant
to rural development. The training had five closely related
elements: technical content; hands-on developmental work;
field inquiry or local needs assessment; comparison with
indigenous knowledge; and...
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The Nuts and Bolts of Designing and Implementing Training Programs in Developing Countries
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
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#accreditation#achievement#achievement level#Adolescent Girls#adult learners#adult learning#adults#advanced training#advertisements#apprenticeship training#aptitudes
Training programs mainly address market failures related to lack of skills (technical, cognitive, non-cognitive). This paper conducts a comprehensive review of training programs effectiveness in developing countries. Based on relevant international experiences, the paper highlights key design features associated with program success as well as implementation challenges and discusses their policy implication. Success of training programs is deeply related with the content of the skills provided and how well they serve the local labor demand (demand-driven design) and with the presence of a sound governance structure for training providers and beneficiaries. In particular, the effectiveness of training programs for youth tends to be higher when a 'comprehensive' approach is taken by combining different types of training with complementary support services. The ultimate goal is to inform new program design and improve the performance of current training programs.
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Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper; Publications & Research
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#ACHIEVEMENT SCORES#ADULT LITERACY#ADULT LITERACY SURVEY#ADULTS#AVERAGE SCORE#AVERAGE WAGE#AVERAGE WAGES#COMPLETION RATES#DEMAND FOR EDUCATION#EDUCATED WORKERS#EDUCATION EXPENDITURE
In the transition to a market economy,
the Russian workforce underwent a wrenching period of
change, with excess supply of some industrial skills
coexisting with reports of skills shortages by many
enterprises. This paper uses data from the Russia
Competitiveness and Investment Climate Survey and related
local research to gain insight into the changing supply and
demand for skills over time, and the potential reasons for
reported staffing problems and skills shortages, including
labor turnover, compensation policies, and the inhibiting
effects of labor regulations. It discusses in-service
training as an enterprise strategy for meeting staffing and
skills needs, and presents evidence on the distribution,
intensity, and determinants of in-service training in
Russia. It investigates the productivity and wage outcomes
of in-service training, and the supportive role of training
in firms' research and development and innovative
activities. A final section concludes with some policy
implications of the findings.
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Is Functional Literacy a Prerequisite for Entering the Labor Market? An Analysis of Determinants of Adults Literacy and Earnings in Ghana
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research; Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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#access to education#adult illiteracy#adult illiteracy rate#adult literacy#basic education#basic education programs#basic literacy#basic skills#civil rights#curriculum#developing countries
The authors analyze the determinants of literacy and earnings in Ghana. They link literacy and earnings with various other factors, including age, gender, family educational background, distance to school, and income. Literacy and age are negatively correlated, suggesting that efforts to strengthen the supply and quality of basic education programs in recent years have succeeded in raising literacy rates. Parents' education is positively associated with literacy. Distance to the nearest primary school, residence in a rural area, and poverty are negatively associated with literacy. Functional literacy appears to be a prerequisite for entering the labor market, which may partly explain the lack of returns to education other than middle school and technical and professional training. The policy implications of this study: Basic education and literacy programs should target girls and poorer households, especially in rural areas.
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Skills and Literacy Training for Better Livelihoods : A Review of Approaches and Experiences; Formation professionnelle et alphabetisation pour de meilleurs moyens d'existence : un examen des approches et des experiences
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC
Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Brief; Publications & Research
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#LITERACY PROGRAMS#VOCATIONAL EDUCATION#ILLITERACY#LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION#EDUCATION FOR ALL#CONTINUING EDUCATION#VOCATIONAL TRAINING#ACCESS TO EDUCATION#POVERTY INCIDENCE#POVERTY GAP#WOMEN'S EDUCATION
Too often, policy for vocational
education in developing countries has only concerned itself
with a literate minority within the labor force. This study
helps to widen that view. From the perspective of "
Education for All " and " Lifelong Education,
" the report examines efforts to combine vocational
training with literacy education, to enable a very poor,
illiterate labor force, especially rural women, to develop
more productive livelihoods and take on increasingly active
roles in transforming their families and communities. The
aim is to assess whether and how official policy should
support such efforts. Based on documentary evidence from
several countries, particularly Guinea, Kenya, Senegal, and
Uganda, the report suggests that vocational education policy
should encompass out-of-school, and illiterate youth and
adults, but to be effective would require gradualism,
decentralization, capacity building, flexibility, and
components of savings, credit, and enterprise development.
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Convergência e divergência na conexão entre gênero e letramento: novos avanços; Convergence and divergence in the gender and literacy connection: recent developments
Fonte: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Educação
Publicador: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Educação
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion; ; ; ; ; ;
Formato: application/pdf
Publicado em 01/07/2001
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Este artigo examina as hipóteses teóricas e os resultados empíricos de três perspectivas distintas que orientam a pesquisa em alfabetização de adultos. É baseado em uma revisão da literatura recente sobre o tema, cuja maior parte apareceu em livros e periódicos em língua inglesa. As perspectivas são: alfabetização como uma habilidade básica descontextualizada; alfabetização como prática social imersa em condições locais (letramento); e alfabetização (letramento) como ferramenta para o empowerment individual e coletivo, especialmente de mulheres. As divergências encontradas referem-se: ao conceito de alfabetização/letramento, ao potencial atribuído à alfabetização para o desenvolvimento nacional e melhoria das condições sociais, à possibilidade de uma medida padronizada válida das habilidades de alfabetização, ao papel dos mediadores no processo de alfabetização e ao poder do contexto na determinação do letramento como uma prática estável. As convergências existem ao se considerar os programas de alfabetização como de difícil implementação e carentes de comprometimento político a longo prazo, de capacitação adequada de professores e de recursos financeiros apropriados aos objetivos declarados de alfabetização. Da perspectiva do empowerment de mulheres...
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