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Learning and education in developing countries = research and policy for the post-2015 UN development goals /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Learning and education in developing countries/ Edited by Daniel A. Wagner.
Reminder of title:	research and policy for the post-2015 UN development goals /
Author:	Wagner, Daniel A.,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Pivot : : 2014.,
Description:	144 p. :8 ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Development studies - Developing countries. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137455977 (electronic bk.) :

Learning and education in developing countries = research and policy for the post-2015 UN development goals /
Wagner, Daniel A.,1946-,

Learning and education in developing countriesresearch and policy for the post-2015 UN development goals /[electronic resource] :Edited by Daniel A. Wagner. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Pivot :2014. - 144 p. :8 ill.

Electronic book text.

1. Learning First: An Introduction-- Daniel A. Wagner 2. Literacy and Numeracy Skills Among Children in Developing Countries-- Jessica Ball, Scott G. Paris, and Rangachar Govinda 3. Information and Communications Technologies for Improving Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes in Developing Countries-- J. Enrique Hinostroza, Shafika Isaacs, and Mohammed Bougroum 4. Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations-- Mary Joy Pigozzi, Bidemi Carrol, Jacqueline Hayden, and Susy Ndaruhutse 5. Non-formal Education and Learning-- Pia Rebello Britto, Moses Oketch, and Thomas S. Weisner 6. Assessment of and for Learning-- Yusuf Sayed, Anil Kanjee, and Nirmala Rao 7. Towards a Learning Research Agenda-- Daniel A. Wagner.

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This comprehensive and up-to-date review of learning and educational quality in developing countries, written by 16 highly knowledgeable specialists from around the world, provides policymakers and researchers accessible perspectives with the Millennium Development Goals in mind.Education in Developing Countries provides comprehensive and up-to-date review of learning and educational quality in developing countries, written by highly knowledgeable specialists from around the world. The areas reviewed include early literacy, new technologies, conflict-affected contexts, non-formal education, and learning assessment, and are among the most crucial for policy makers-from ministers of education, development agencies to academic specialists and students in international educational development. Working with the UN Millennium Development Goals to improve educational quality, this cutting edge, research-based review helps to situate what is known and remains to be known to improve education globally.

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Daniel Wagner is UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy, and Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is Director of the International Literacy Institute, co-founded by UNESCO and the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the University of Pennsylvania' International Educational Development Program. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Education Planning in Paris, a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Paris. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Anthropological Association, and the American Educational Research Association.

ISBN: 1137455977 (electronic bk.) :£30.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1009870
Development studies
--Developing countries.

LC Class. No.: LC2605

Dewey Class. No.: 370.91724

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