Afghanistan
Two countries that influenced the curriculum in Afghanistan during the Cold War
What are the United States and Russia?
The year South Sudan gained independence
What is 2011?
The 3 dominant ethnic groups in Sri Lanka
What are Sinhalese, Tamils, and Moors
3 areas the article will focus on in the study
What are recognition, redistribution and participation
True or False: Most peace agreements since the Cold War have included education reform
True
Provided mainly religious education and covered some other subjects, such as history, poetry, writing or traditional medicine
What are Madrassa schools?
Following the CPA, this language was established as the country’s official language of instruction and all the new primary textbooks are now entirely in _____
What is English?
Characteristics of the education style in Sri Lankan classrooms
What is exam-oriented, teacher center and reliant on textbooks
The Mayan's demands after the goals from the Peace Accords of 1996
What are greater participation in civil society, the expansion of educational opportunities and multicultural educational reform to include the Mayan culture and languages in the curriculum
The Latin American country with the lowest literacy rate
What is Haiti?
Who is King Amanullah?
Religion that is a mandatory subject for all children enrolled in government schools, despite the fact that there is significant religious diversity with multiple indigenous religious belief systems
What is Christianity?
Prevents a shift in cultural capital from a dominant class and structure towards a pluralistic community of cultures, languages, and beliefs.
What is the separation of these groups on the basis of religious, ethnic and linguistic divisions?
Effect of implementing democracy on education investment in Guatemala
What is decreased educational investment
The number of South Sudanese children deprived of textbooks for 3 years after a corruption scandal
What is 1.9 million?
Reason why the Afghan state’s Western-leaning development efforts were often resisted
what is a majority of the population saw them as contradicting their Islamic and Afghan identity and lifestyle?
The following practice was observed in Central Equatoria State to incorporate Mother Tounge in the classroom
What is: concepts are first explained in Mother Tounge then written on the chalkboard in English. Students copy the written explanations into notebooks and later attempt to memorize it in preparation for exams
Cited as a reason that National Institute of Education produced textbooks that distort history and contain material that is offensive to minority groups
What is of the 31 writers used in the development of 4 citizenship textbooks, only 1 was Tamil and there were no Muslims involved?
What interviewees cited as the most important exercises for education reform
What are the peace accords, and the dialogue and consensus?
According to this scholar, the transformative potential of schools lies in the agency of teachers, students and other educational stakeholders who engage in critical, politically charged education geared towards social transformation
Who is Grioux?
A group of mujahedin kill 178 out of 3560 enemy soldiers in battle. What percentage of the enemy have been killed
5%
Makes education for peace significantly more challenging, as education becomes infused with a validation of war
What is blurring the lines between the education system and the military mission
What was the Sri Lankan initiative to promote social cohesion
What is Sinhala and Tamil are supposed to be taught to all students attending government schools Since a 1997 education reform, children are educated in their first language and are required to learn an additional national language. Sinhalese children learn Tamil and Tamils learn Sinhala; English is used as a linking language for everyone from grade three onwards.
Parents responsiblities within the PRONADE program
What are acquisition and maintence of the building, admissions, hiring and firing, payment and control of teachers, meetings with the ISE officers, buying food and organizing distribution, travel plans, attending 3 day training
Included in a PRONADE 1-year teaching contract?
What is payment for 10 months, a bonus after 2 months, salary and funds for school work materials for students, and money for a school snack?