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From silenced to vocal: Teacher unionists’ growing influence on educational development in Taiwan
This article looks into how these pioneering teacher unionists emulated their western forerunners and finally formed a new voice for their peers. By means of interviews with twenty founding members, it is proposed that unionism and professionalism are not mutually exclusive and that the betterment of working conditions can contribute to the quality of education delivered to children. In line with this integrated philosophy, the unions have developed strategies to exercise their right to speak. Micro-strategies champion professional identity to improve members’ teaching practice and gain the public’s trust. Macro-strate...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - October 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Can scholarships provide equitable access to high-quality university education? Evidence from the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Publication date: November 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 71Author(s): Clemencia Cosentino, Jane Fortson, Sarah Liuzzi, Anthony Harris, Randall BlairAbstractThis paper estimates the impact of a scholarship program—the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program—on access to university. Using propensity score matching, the analysis finds that the Program improves access to high-quality university studies among vulnerable, disadvantaged youth, mostly from Africa—increasing timely access to university, to higher levels of study, and to studies abroad. Half of scholarship recipients study...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - September 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Stratification and conflict – seeking understanding and spaces for optimism
Publication date: November 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 71Author(s): Claire MaxwellAbstractIn this brief commentary, I reflect on the main themes that emerge across the papers published in this special issue. Despite the focus on Israel, I argue that the key findings have relevance to other contexts. This commentary seeks specifically to identify spaces for optimism in a context often categorised as highly stratified and engaged in an intractable conflict. (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - September 25, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The impact of art-education on human Capital: An empirical assessment of a youth orchestra
Publication date: November 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 71Author(s): Pablo Egana-delSol, Dante Contreras, Juan Pablo ValenzuelaAbstractResearch on the causal relation between extracurricular activities and the development of cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes is scarce at the individual level, despite increasing international evidence that such activities are highly relevant and even, in some cases, more effective than traditional school improvement support programs. Based on an unprecedented intervention in the area of music, this paper evaluates the impact of intensive particip...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - September 18, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Constrained school choice in Egypt
Publication date: November 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 71Author(s): Caroline Krafft, Asmaa Elbadawy, Maia SieverdingAbstractThis paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed-methods approach, combining survey data with qualitative in-depth interviews to explore schooling decisions. We find that attendance of private education institutions has increased over time but only at the university level. Azhari (Islamic religious) school attendance at the pre-university level has increased over time. Multivariate models show that gir...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - September 13, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Publication date: October 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 70Author(s): (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - September 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Source: International Journal of Educational Development - September 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

IJED volume 70
Publication date: Available online 4 September 2019Source: International Journal of Educational DevelopmentAuthor(s): Stephen P. Heyneman (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - September 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Challenges facing international faculty at Japanese universities: Main findings from the 2017 national survey
Publication date: November 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 71Author(s): Futao Huang, Tsukasa Daizen, Yangson KimAbstractThe purpose of this study is to explore the main challenges facing full-time international faculty at Japanese universities based on relevant findings from a national survey of them which was carried out from June to August 2017. The study suggests that despite differences in degree, international faculty believed that they experienced many challenges at national, institutional and personal levels. This is especially true in the cases of their responses to the survey q...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - September 3, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Inequality of opportunity in educational attainment in the Middle East and North Africa: Evidence from household surveys
In this study, we find that - even in attending and staying in school- the playing field is not level. (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - August 31, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Inequalities in Presence of a School Funding Formula: The 15-year Free Education Program in Thailand
Publication date: October 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 70Author(s): Bernard Gauthier, Chaiyuth PunyasavatsutAbstractThis paper examines the capacity of the “15-year Free Education program” (FEP) funding formula in Thailand at reducing inequalities in resource allocation across primary and secondary schools and at narrowing learning outcomes inequalities. The analysis uses data from an education sector survey carried out in 2015-2016 covering 240 public schools, 2463 teachers and 2500 households. We find that while the FEP contributes at reducing disparities in resources per stude...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - August 31, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Parental chronic illness and child education: Evidence from children in Indonesia
Publication date: Available online 28 August 2019Source: International Journal of Educational DevelopmentAuthor(s): Sung Soo LimAbstractUsing two waves (2007, 2014) of Indonesian Family Life Survey data, this paper investigates effects of parental chronic illness on educational attainment of children in Indonesia. Studies on this nonpecuniary cost of adult morbidity are rare in the literature despite its significance in future wellbeing of people in developing countries. This paper is distinguished from existing related studies in that it accounts for the duration of illness in the estimation of the effects. The results sh...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - August 29, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Local governance, education and occupation-education mismatch: Heterogeneous effects on wages in a lower middle income economy
Publication date: November 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 71Author(s): Tuyen Quang Tran, Hiep Hung Pham, Hoa Thi Vo, Hong Thuy Luu, Huong Mai NguyenAbstractUsing data from the first quarter of Labour Force Survey 2018, this paper examines the role of provincial governance, education and job-education mismatch in wage differentials in Vietnam. We find that good provincial governance benefits those in lower wage quantiles more than those in higher wage quantiles. Also, the returns on higher education qualifications (e.g., bachelor’s or master’s degrees) tend to be higher for those at...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - August 29, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “Global linguistic capital, global cultural capital: International student migrants in China’s two-track international education market” [Int J Educ Dev 67 94–102]
Publication date: Available online 26 August 2019Source: International Journal of Educational DevelopmentAuthor(s): Claire Seungeun Lee (Source: International Journal of Educational Development)
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - August 28, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

‘Maybe that’s how they learned in the past, but we don’t learn like this today’: Youth perspectives on violent discipline in Lebanon’s public schools
Publication date: October 2019Source: International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 70Author(s): Lena Bahou, Zeena ZakhariaAbstractThis paper explores students’ experiences of violent school discipline in three urban public schools in Lebanon. Despite being banned by Lebanon’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education, violent discipline, including corporal punishment and verbal humiliation, emerged repeatedly from student accounts as a key barrier to school engagement. Drawing on ethnographic data and a conceptual framework informed by postcolonial and critical peace research, we consider the interaction o...
Source: International Journal of Educational Development - August 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research