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Rural Education [PDF]

Nature, 1899
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A look at rural childhoods: contributions to pedagogical practices in Early Childhood Education and Early Years

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
This writing is an excerpt from a Course Conclusion Paper (TCC) presented to the Pedagogy Course at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). The general objective is to understand how rural childhoods are considered in the pedagogical practices of ...
Priscila Michelon Giovelli, Helenise Sangoi Antunes, Débora Ortiz de Leão   +2 more
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The community-level effects of women's education on reproductive behaviour in rural Ghana [PDF]

Using survey and census data for rural Ghana collected in the 1980s, this study examines the ability of women’s education to increase interest in fertility regulation and contraception among all women, regardless of their individual and household ...
Kofi D. Benefo
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Exploring the barriers to implementing hybrid learning in rural primary schools

Cogent Education
Hybrid learning is a progressive approach that offers flexibility and expanded learning opportunities for students. However, limited attention has been given to the contextual barriers faced by rural primary schools in adopting such models.
S. Kanageswari Suppiah Shanmugam, Arsaythamby Veloo, Soo Boon Ng, Suheysen Revindran   +3 more
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Returns to education in India: Some recent evidence [PDF]

This paper estimates returns to education in India using a nationally representative survey. We estimate the standard Mincerian wage equation separately for rural and urban sectors.
Tushar Agrawal
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
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Bridging contexts in STEM professional development: validating a social validity measure across rural and nonrural educators

Frontiers in Education
IntroductionThis study investigates the measurement invariance of a survey assessing perceptions of STEM professional development (PD) resources among rural and non-rural educators.
Angela Crawford, Angela Starrett
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Rurality and rural education: Discourses underpinning rurality and rural education research in South African postgraduate education research 1994–2004

South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Historically, rurality and rural education have been marginalised bodies of knowledge in South Africa. The post-1994 era has seen an emerging government concern to address the continuing interplay between poverty, HIV/AIDS, underdevelopment, and underachievement in schools categorised as rural.
Balfour, Robert John, Nkambule, T., Pillay, G, Moletsane, R.   +3 more
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Women’s Autonomy in the Context of Rural Pakistan [PDF]

The paper explores the elements that constitute women’s autonomy in rural Pakistan. Hitherto most research on women’s status in Pakistan has either been restricted to proxy measures of women’s status generally or to the urban areas.
Shahnaz Kazi, Zeba Ayesha Sathar
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