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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Patterns of Potential Human Progress |
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Patterns of potential human progress.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Copyright Page; Title Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; List of Boxes; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Where Are We Now in the Global Transition?; Where Might We Be Going? Global Education Goals; The primacy of universal primary education; Other global goals for expansion of education; How Can We Explore the Possible Futures of the Transition?; Analysis of the global education transition; The International Futures global modeling system; Conclusion and Road Map for This Volume |
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2 Understanding the Education Transition and Its ContextEducation as an Expression of Social Purpose; Placing Education in a Human Development Framework; The impact of the broader human development system on education; Education's impact on other aspects of human development; Difficulties in analyzing educational change and human development; Participation in and Attainment of Education: A Conceptual Framework; Student flow patterns; Levels of education attainment; Conclusion; Appendix to Chapter 2: Education System Elements; Levels of education; Duration of education by level |
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Compulsory education3 The Historical Context; The Progression of Enrollment Expansion; Gender Balance: Pursuing Parity; Understanding the History of Education's Advance; Drivers of advance: The context of change; The critical role of demography; Economic level; Sociopolitical context; Exploring Patterns of Participation: Subregional and Cross-Regional Analyses; Further analysis of enrollment patterns in sub-Saharan Africa; Beyond sub-Saharan Africa: Primarily secondary concerns; Education Spending; Public spending: Global patterns; Public spending: Regional patterns |
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Public spending per studentThe Role of Private Education; Private enrollment; Private spending; Adult Populations: Education Attainment; Average years of education; Adult education by completed level; Gender balance of adult education attainment; Literacy; Conclusion; 4 Forecasting Education; Characteristics of Ideal Education Forecasting Models and Tools; Recent Education Modeling and Forecasting Approaches; The IFs Modeling System; General design considerations; The models of IFs; The use of IFs; The Education Model; Accounting system; Dominant relationships; Key dynamics |
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Initializing the modelConclusion; Appendix to Chapter 4: Education Modeling and Forecasting Approaches McMahon; McMahon; Delamonica, Mehrotra, and Vandemoortele; Bruns, Mingat, and Rakotomalala; Clemens; Wils, O'Connor, and Somerville; Lutz, Goujon, and Wils; Hilderink; Wils, Barrow, Oliver, Chaluda, Goodfriend, Kim, and Sylla; 5 What Path Are We On?; The IFs Base Case Forecast; Student population flows: Expansion of education; Student flows: Targeted country sets; Student flows: Missing current goals; Gender parity; Education expenditures; Education attainment of adults |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hughes, Barry B., author
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Irfan, Mohammed T., author
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| ISBN |
9781317264170 |
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1317264177 |
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