Policy brief
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Embedding community voice into smart city spatial planning
Public participation in spatial planning is a vital means to successful policymaking and can be enhanced by combining geospatial methods with participatory learning and action. Based on a pilot study in Bhopal, India involving urban authorities, civil society organisations and experts in an informal settlement during Covid-19 lockdowns, the authors find that the obstacles to […]
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La educación de niños y niñas con discapacidad en el Perú durante la pandemia
This policy brief is based on a study that analyzes how the health emergency of COVID-19 has changed the way in which inclusive public educational services are offered and the possibility of students with disabilities at the primary level in the modalities of EBE and EBR in Peru to exercise the right to education.
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Educación superior en pandemia: Una aproximación cualitativa desde Niños del Milenio
When the national quarantine was set in March 2020, young people who were pursuing higher education were immersed in emergency virtual education. This document analyzes their perceptions of change, as well as the barriers they faced and the resources they had to continue studying. In addition, it describes how COVID-19 influenced the aspirations of young […]
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The Challenges of Inequality and COVID-19 for Young People in Peru: Evidence from the Listening to Young Lives at Work COVID-19 Phone Survey
This policy brief looks at the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of adolescents and young people in Peru as they transition into adulthood, focusing on how widening inequalities are hitting those from disadvantaged backgrounds hardest.
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Estrategias de cuidado infantil en familias vulnerables peruanas: Evidencia cualitativa de Niños del Milenio
El análisis de las percepciones de niños y niñas, y de las diversas situaciones que enfrentan familias urbanas y rurales que participan en el estudio cualitativo longitudinal Niños del Milenio (NdM), muestra que el cuidado infantil es una actividad familiar y femenina. Además, la precariedad económica en la que viven estos niños los expone a […]
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¿Qué diferencia hacen las escuelas? Un estudio de métodos mixtos en colegios secundarios del Perú
The study on which this policy document is based analyzes which factors are associated with good results of students in public secondary educational institutions (IE), despite their adverse socioeconomic condition. For this purpose, a mixed methods design is used that follows a sequential explanatory model, which allows us to explore the effect of different types […]
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Estratificación de los retornos a la educación superior en el Perú: El rol de la calidad de la educación y las opciones de carrera
This policy brief analyses the situation in Latin America and the Caribbean with respect to their levels of growth in the higher education attendance rate. In the case of Peru, the gross attendance rate at this level increased between 2001 and 2019 (for 17-21 year olds). In this context of increased access, the quality of […]
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Do more school resources increase learning outcomes? Evidence from an extended school-day reform
It remains an open debate whether allocating more resources improves the learning outcomes of students in low-performing public schools. We focus on the effect of increased instructional time, which is theoretically ambiguous due to possible compensatory changes in student, teacher or parent effort. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we find that a reform that extends […]
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Nuevos formatos pedagógicos para una escuela sin grados
Los sistemas educativos necesitan construir nuevos modos de organizar las actividades escolares y el aprendizaje, con el fin de desarrollar la capacidad de niñas y niños para concebir y desarrollar proyectos; es decir, la capacidad proyectiva. Al respecto, las escuelas multigrado cuentan con una importante ventaja que es necesario aprovechar: el trabajo conjunto de estudiantes […]
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Los cuadernos de autoaprendizaje, los manuales docentes y otros materiales de ayuda para aprender y enseñar en el medio rural
En el contexto actual de pandemia, que amplifica las dificultades previas de la educación rural, se torna necesaria en el Perú – como en otros países del mundo – una reflexión acerca del rol de los cuadernos de autoaprendizaje, de los manuales docentes y de los materiales didácticos en general, así como su evaluación continua […]
