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Cracking the code : Girls’ and women’s education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
(UNESCO, 2017)
This report aims to ‘crack the code’, or to decipher the factors that hinder or facilitate girls’ and women’s participation, achievement and continuation in STEM education, and what can be done by the education sector to ...
Education policy implementation : A literature review and proposed framework
(OECD, 2017-12)
This literature review focuses on education policy implementation, its definition, processes and determinants. It aims to clarify what implementing policies involve in complex education systems to support policy work, ...
Pathways from school to work in the developing world
(SpringerOpen, 2017)
This paper uses novel micro data from the ILO-STWT surveys to provide evidence on the duration, endpoint, and determinants of the transition from school to work in a sample of 23 low- and middle-income countries around the ...
Globalization and the Neoliberal Imaginary of Educational Reform
(UNESCO, 2017-02)
Most recent policies and programmes of educational reform have been framed, justified and promoted on a widely held belief that aligning educational policies and practices with the economic, political and cultural changes ...
The Adolescent Brain : A second window to opportunity
(UNICEF, 2017)
Scientific advances over the past decade have contributed to a much greater understanding of the growth of the human brain from birth to adulthood. Latest evidence illuminates the adolescent brain as a ‘work in progress’, ...
Impacto social y económico de la doble carga de la malnutrición : modelo de análisis y estudio piloto en Chile, el Ecuador y México
(CEPAL, 2017-11)
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y el Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) están comprometidos con el desarrollo de herramientas que provean datos empíricos para diseñar políticas públicas e ...
El género y las trayectorias hacia la adultez en el Perú : educación, trabajo y maternidad/paternidad
(Niños del Milenio, 2017-08)
En este documento se examina cómo el género afecta las trayectorias educativas, laborales y de maternidad/paternidad de una muestra de jóvenes que crecen en situación de pobreza en el Perú. Se reporta los resultados y las ...
Global Citizenship Concepts in Curriculum Guidelines of 10 Countries : Comparative Analysis
(UNESCO, 2017-04)
This paper reports on a study of concepts associated with the new construct of global citizenship education (GCED) in school curricula. We compared the national school curricula of ten countries with markedly different ...
Literacy Rates Continue to Rise from One Generation to the Next
(UNESCO, 2017-09)
Although literacy has been high on the development agenda over the past decades, UIS data show that 750 million adults – two-thirds of whom are women – still lack basic reading and writing skills, according to the latest ...
School for all : experiences of municipal public schools with inclusion of students with disabilities, ASD, GDD and high ability/giftedness
(UNESCO, 2017)
The study set out to identify and analyse the practices of municipal public-school networks in Brazil concerning the educational inclusion of students with disabilities, ASD and GDD, as well as gifted/talented students. ...