This book is quite different from existing'Western'books on school effectiveness. It describes
and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to …

I read Harber and Mncube's book while supervising several doctoral students who are
researching issues around citizenship and democracy in a small African country, Lesotho …

Con base en datos empíricos recolectados en varias escuelas secundarias en Guadalajara,
este artículo enfoca una dimensión que ha recibido poca atención en la investigación sobre …

The concept of adolescence as a unique and difficult stage in the human life-course has
itself followed a turbulent historical path. Although the term occasionally appeared in …

The paper highlights the importance of affectivity in school retention in public secondary
schools in Guadalajara, Mexico, in a socioeconomic context where the students themselves …

The recent uprising in South East Mexico has been seen by many as ver ofthe poor on
decades, if not centuries, of neglect (Guillermoprieto, 19 The withdrawal of various cushions …

This article uses life course theory (Heinz and Krüger 2001; Heinz 2003) and family
bargaining theory (Lundberg and Pollak 1993) to explore how decisions over schooling are …

Rights-based approaches to social development have gained increasing currency in recent
years. Their attraction lies partly in the fact that they recast the poor and other marginalised …

For low-income youth in Mexico today, the pressure that the future exerts on the present is
intense. Their fate hangs on what they do today in a far more urgent way than it is likely to at …

This thesis examines the interplay between definitions of poverty and female-headed
households. To this point poverty research has not to been able to appropriately measure …