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• Policy-practice gap in participation of students with disabilities in Ethiopia's formal vocational education programme 

  Malle, Abebe Yehualawork (University of Jyväskylä, 2017)

  In Ethiopia, individuals with disabilities have limited access to educational and vocational training opportunities due to environmental, attitudinal and institutional barriers. The overarching purpose of the study was ...

• Rights based approaches to development in Ethiopia : theory, application and power dynamics 

  Ferguson, Hanna (2009)

  The purpose of this thesis is to explore aspects of rights based approaches to development. Particularly the aim is to describe how power works in and through the approach – on the theoretical and practical levels. The ...

• The role of non formal education in transforming power relations and challenging gender : a critical case study of an alternative basic education programme in Alaba Kulito, Ethiopia 

  Garcia Piriz, Aranzazu (2010)

  Top to bottom initiatives are being exported to developing countries with the same patterns and patriarchal structures that exist in the west. Since the 70´s and currently, non formal education (NFE) programmes are being ...

• Data practices and inequality in South African early childhood development policy : Technocratic management versus social transformation 

  Rudolph, Norma; Millei, Zsuzsanna; Alasuutari, Maarit (AOSIS Publishing, 2019)

  Background: In 1994, the African National Congress identified early childhood development as a potential strategy to redress the inequalities of apartheid, however, two and a half decades later, poverty still persists, and ...

• A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Promoting Initial Literacy Development in Africa : Ongoing and Planned Research and Development at the University of Zambia’s Centre for Promotion of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa (CAPOLSA) 

  Serpell, Robert; Jere-Folotiya, Jacqueline; Chansa-Kabali, Tamara; Munachaka, Jonathan; Maumbi, Mwanza Nakawala; Yalukanda, Christopher; Sampa, Francis; Lyytinen, Heikki (Springer, 2017)

  A four-year research and development program at CAPOLSA (the Centre for the Promotion of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa) was inspired by widespread dissatisfaction with poor literacy outcomes of mass basic schooling in ...