Poverty causes illiteracy and illiteracy causes poverty. No country today better exemplifies this cycle than Pakistan, where most educational plans and policies have failed to make any significant contribution towards increase in literacy rates. The objective of this paper is to critically examine the improvement in educational status and poverty by analyzing the Pro-Poor Growth Index & Poverty...

In this paper we present an educational approach to foster selforganized learning within organizations. Based on the notion that learning as well as work is embedded in collectively organized and artifact mediated activity systems and that learning entails individual and social transformation we outline the concept of Minimal Activity Plans and describe potential use cases. In order to organize...

This study aimed to investigate whether behavioural or emotional problems in adolescents detected by their teachers are signs of a common psychosocial maladjustment and of the beginning of social marginalization. Altogether, 171 pupils (15 years of age) from the eastern part of Finland participated in the survey. Behavioural and emotional problems and academic achievements were assessed separat...

After more than two decades of plans and programs directed at integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into educational systems, a number of studies from different contexts relate that, although the presence of this media in schools is already a reality, the teaching staff has still not innovated its methodology and its educational practice since the adoption of ICT as a hab...

This paper proposes an educational design plan for two modules within a professional development programme at UNITEC, about learning and teaching online. These modules address the areas of moderating online discussions, and online assessment. The application of the “SCARIE” model (a set of guidelines for effective online learning) to the educational design is described. Plans for the implementa...

Multidisciplinary research reliant upon high-performance computing stretches the traditional educational framework into which it is often shoehorned. Multidisciplinary research centers, coupled with flexible and responsive educational plans, provide a means of training the next generation of multidisciplinary computational scientists and engineers. The purpose of this paper is to address some o...