Your search
Results 85 resources
-
Poverty is rife in many African countries and this has serious implications for the provision of quality education. Rural schools face severe challenges that are unique to their environment. A lack of parental interest in children’s education, insufficient funding from the state, a lack of resources, underqualified teachers, and multi-grade teaching are some of the barriers to effective education. These challenges can be attributed to numerous sources, from within school structures and from...
-
Teaching is an emotional endeavor. Unlike mass service employees, teachers enjoy considerable autonomy in their teaching and maintain relatively stable relationships with students, parents, and colleagues. This study is a meta-analytic review of the associations between teachers' emotional labor strategies (i.e., surface acting, deep acting, and the expression of naturally felt emotions) and other relevant constructs. The meta-analysis is based on 85 empirical articles and 86 independent...
-
Through evaluating dominant MOOC platforms created by Western universities, I argue that MOOCs on such platforms tend to embed Western-centric epistemologies and propagate this without questioning their global relevance. Consequently, such MOOCs can be detrimental when educating diverse and complex participants as they erode local and indigenous knowledge systems. Arguing that the digital divide is an exacerbation of historical inequalities, I draw parallels between colonial education,...
-
The study primarily explored the challenges of teaching in rural basic schools in Ghana. Qualitative research method through semi-structured interviews and document analyses were used as data collection instruments. The participants for the study included six educational field workers which constituted a district education officer (Circuit Supervisor), two head teachers and three classroom teachers. Priority of the findings was highlighted on the provision of accommodation with adequate...
-
Emotional labor represents a long-standing area of research that since its initial development by Hochschild (1983) has been increasingly explored to understand why and how teachers manage and express their emotions in class. However, previous studies investigating teachers’ emotional labor have utilized varying conceptual frameworks and have often shown inconsistent effects, particularly concerning deep acting (i.e., the internalization of desired emotions such that expressed emotions are...
-
Digitalization in Higher Education (HE) institutions is an issue that concerns many educational stakeholders. ICT skills are becoming increasingly relevant in every context, especially in the workplace, therefore one of the prime objectives for universities has become preparing future professionals to be able to deal with problems and search for solutions, including digital competence as a vital skill set. Different policies, initiatives and strategies are currently being proposed in...
-
This case study explores students’ perceptions of the creation and reuse of digital teaching and learning resources in their work as tutors as part of a volunteer community development organisation at a large South African University. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, student-tutors reflect on their use and reuse of digital educational resources, and identify the challenges they experience in curating, adapting, and reusing educational resources for use in their teaching...
-
Donor Organizations & the Principles for Digital Development: A Landscape Assessment and Gap Analysis. (Principles for Digital Development — Resource Development Program Asset No. 1) Also available at https://digitalprinciples.org/resource/donor-organizations-the-principles-for-digital-development-a-landscape-assessment-and-gap-analysis/, https://digitalprinciples.org/wp-content/uploads/PDD2018_interactive.pdf
Explore
Our programmes
Organisations, collaborators and clients
Publication type
Theme
- Black Lives Matter (1)
- Education Workforce (12)
- Geodata in Education (2)
-
Research and evaluation
(1)
- Other (1)
- Teacher Education (39)
- Tech in Research (1)
-
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET)
(6)
- Publications (6)
Location
-
Americas
-
Northern America
- Canada
- United States (65)
-
Caribbean
(33)
- Antigua and Barbuda (8)
- Bahamas (3)
- Barbados (6)
- Cuba (19)
- Dominica (7)
- Dominican Republic (12)
- Grenada (7)
- Haiti (6)
- Jamaica (9)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (6)
- Saint Lucia (5)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (6)
- Trinidad and Tobago (9)
-
Central America
(29)
- Belize (6)
- Costa Rica (9)
- El Salvador (8)
- Guatemala (8)
- Honduras (9)
- Mexico (23)
- Nicaragua (6)
- Panama (7)
- South America (36)
-
Northern America
-
Africa
(65)
-
Eastern Africa
(51)
- Burundi (8)
- Comoros (6)
- Djibouti (8)
- Eritrea (9)
- Ethiopia (26)
- Kenya (35)
- Madagascar (8)
- Mauritius (12)
- Puntland (1)
- Rwanda (18)
- Seychelles (7)
- Somalia (11)
- Somaliland (6)
- South Sudan (7)
- Tanzania (35)
- Uganda (32)
- Zambia (32)
- Zimbabwe (20)
-
Middle Africa
(23)
- Angola (6)
- Cameroon (10)
- Central African Republic (8)
- Chad (7)
- Congo, Democratic Republic (9)
- Congo, Republic (4)
- Equatorial Guinea (3)
- Gabon (5)
- Niger (12)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (5)
- Northern Africa (31)
-
Southern Africa
(56)
- Botswana (22)
- eSwatini (11)
- Lesotho (15)
- Malawi (31)
- Mozambique (17)
- Namibia (18)
- South Africa (46)
-
Western Africa
(44)
- Benin (10)
- Burkina Faso (8)
- Cape Verde (5)
- Gambia (13)
- Ghana (34)
- Guinea (12)
- Guinea-Bissau (4)
- Ivory Coast (6)
- Liberia (12)
- Mali (14)
- Mauritania (5)
- Nigeria (32)
- Senegal (14)
- Sierra Leone (9)
- Togo (7)
-
Eastern Africa
(51)
-
Asia
(78)
-
Central Asia
(7)
- Kazakhstan (6)
- Kyrgyzstan (5)
- Tajikistan (4)
- Turkmenistan (5)
- Uzbekistan (5)
-
Eastern Asia
(60)
- China (46)
- Japan (34)
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic (4)
- Korea, Republic (21)
- Mongolia (9)
-
South-eastern Asia
(61)
- Brunei Darussalam (6)
- Cambodia (14)
- Indonesia (23)
- Laos (6)
- Malaysia (36)
- Myanmar (11)
- Philippines (17)
- Singapore (30)
- Thailand (32)
- Timor-L'este (4)
- Viet Nam (19)
-
Southern Asia
(51)
- Afghanistan (15)
- Bangladesh (24)
- Bhutan (8)
- India (42)
- Iran (24)
- Maldives (7)
- Nepal (17)
- Pakistan (36)
- Sri Lanka (18)
- Tibet (2)
-
Western Asia
(57)
- Abkhazia (1)
- Armenia (6)
- Artsakh (2)
- Azerbaijan (5)
- Bahrain (8)
- Cyprus (9)
- Georgia (11)
- Iraq (8)
- Israel (16)
- Jordan (21)
- Kurdistan (1)
- Kuwait (7)
- Lebanon (12)
- North Cyprus (4)
- Oman (14)
- Qatar (8)
- Saudi Arabia (19)
- South Ossetia (1)
- State of Palestine (10)
- Syrian Arab Republic (12)
- Turkey (45)
- United Arab Emirates (13)
- Yemen (11)
-
Central Asia
(7)
-
Europe
(80)
-
Eastern Europe
(28)
- Belarus (4)
- Bulgaria (6)
- Czech Republic (9)
- Hungary (9)
- Poland (15)
- Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (2)
- Republic of Moldova (5)
- Romania (13)
- Russian Federation (17)
- Slovakia (5)
- Ukraine (7)
- Northern Europe (73)
-
Southern Europe
(51)
- Albania (4)
- Andorra (3)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
- Croatia (6)
- Greece (20)
- Italy (21)
- Kosovo (4)
- Malta (8)
- Montenegro (7)
- North Macedonia (7)
- Portugal (21)
- San Marino (3)
- Serbia (7)
- Slovenia (8)
- Spain (33)
-
Western Europe
(55)
- Austria (13)
- Belgium (20)
- Catalan Republic (2)
- France (39)
- Germany (35)
- Liechtenstein (1)
- Luxembourg (10)
- Monaco (3)
- Netherlands (34)
- Switzerland (16)
-
Eastern Europe
(28)
-
Oceania
(59)
-
Australia and New Zealand
(57)
- Australia (55)
- New Zealand (26)
-
Melanesia
(11)
- Fiji (6)
- Papua New Guinea (9)
- Solomon Islands (7)
- Vanuatu (7)
-
Micronesia
(7)
- Federated States of Micronesia (4)
- Kiribati (6)
- Marshall Islands (4)
- Nauru (4)
- Palau (4)
- Polynesia (9)
-
Australia and New Zealand
(57)