Publications of Education and learning
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Diseños experimentales y su contribución a la medición de impacto de programas sociales y educativos: análisis del estudio experimental del programa “Atención educativa oportuna para el desarrollo integral de niños y niñas de 3 años”
The objective of this article is to analyze the scope and limitations of experimental studies for measuring the impact of a child care program. To achieve this, the research examines a study that aims to estimate the impact on the overall development of children involved in the project “Timely Educational Support for the Comprehensive Development […]
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Trayectorias educativas de jóvenes rurales y urbanos del Perú
Based on fieldwork carried out in Peru as part of the Niños del Milenio – Young Lives project, which has been conducting a longitudinal comparative study with two cohorts of children since 2000 in four countries, we analyzed the educational trajectories of 22 adolescents living in poverty. We want to know how these young people -from […]
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Laptops in the long-run: evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in rural Peru
This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 rural primary schools, as implemented by the Peruvian government starting in 2009. We use administrative and survey data on academic achievement and grade progression through 2019 to estimate the long-run effects of educational technology on i) academic performance […]
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Placing epistemic justice at the core of educational transformations for a just future
Education has a key role in responding to the calls for transformation considering urgent global challenges. We propose a refocusing of educational efforts on an ‘epistemic core’ so that education can effectively contribute to such transformations. This places knowledge/s—and the ways that young people can all consume, recognise, and produce those knowledge/s—at the heart of […]
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Economic inequalities in adolescents’ internalising symptoms: longitudinal evidence from eight countries
Background Research, mainly conducted in Europe and North America, has shown an inequitable burden of internalising mental health problems among adolescents from poorer households. We investigated whether these mental health inequalities differ across a diverse range of countries and multiple measures of economic circumstances. Methods In this longitudinal observational cohort study, we analysed data from […]
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Limitations and possibilities of justice in education and the implications for sustainable futures
Global agendas for sustainable futures rely heavily on the role played by education in promoting justice and changing young people’s attitudes and behaviours. The articles in this special collection jointly demonstrate the challenges, as well as messages of hope, for the ambitious and transformative vision of education that is being increasingly promoted in academic and […]
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From experience to actions for justice: learners’ views on epistemic, environmental and transitional justice in Nepal, Peru and Uganda
Understanding how today’s children will act in the future is essential to education supporting sustainable development. This study investigated how students in three contexts in Nepal, Peru and Uganda understand environmental, epistemic and transitional justice. It used a tabletbased app to present students with scenarios that illustrates different attitudes, experiences and intended actions with respect […]
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Education as justice: articulating the epistemic core of education to enable just futures
While education is expected to play a significant role in responding to global social challenges, sustainable development discourses often fail to attend to issues of pedagogy, purpose and process. In this paper, we argue that one way to focus arguments on educational practice is through considerations of the relationship between education as justice and education for justice. We do […]
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Shallow pedagogies as epistemic injustice: how uncritical forms of learning hinder education’s contribution to just and sustainable development
This paper draws on findings from the JustEd study to discuss the shallow pedagogies that have emerged in Peru in the context of learner-centred and outcomes-based reforms that have been poorly implemented in a context with many limitations in terms of policy orientations, resources, and teacher training and support. These pedagogies promote little to no […]
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El trabajo de sesiones de aprendizaje en aulas rurales multigrado: la experiencia del proyecto CREER
In our country’s multigrade classrooms, teaching and learning are woven differently than in conventional classrooms, which implies adapting educational practices to effectively meet the diverse needs and learning levels of students. In this article, Jessica Tapia, CREER’s pedagogical coordinator, discusses the project’s pedagogical proposal and shares reflections on the lessons learned in its implementation.
