Planning your assignment – you might find
the following form useful for organising your ideas and beginning to structure
your plan. If you prefer to use another
format or you have already started that is fine. The final
Gender
equality and Girls education in India - Topic
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The assignment is a literature review on a topic related to
education and international development. Students will be expected to draw
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Education focus: Development focus: |
Theories/approaches to education and international development; |
Possible Theories/approaches: |
International and national policies; and |
Policy/ies: |
Recent empirical research related to the topic. |
Empirical Research: |
Structure (breakdown of the word limit is only suggestive, and you can be
flexible if your assignment requires it differently) |
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Refining Your Ideas:
Provide more detail where possible – these items may change and
develop |
Title: A critical literature review on … (identify a key topic) |
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Introduction (ca. 700): Research aims, rationale, contexts and questions |
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Methodology (ca. 300): A brief description of your approach to engage with
the literature search (key words, selection criteria), synthesis, databases,
as well as data analysis method, (if you used data including textual analysis
of policy documents). |
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Findings (ca. 2000): Report key themes identified from the reviewed
literature, key theories, cutting-edge empirical evidence, and findings from
any primary/secondary data you analysed). |
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Discussion (ca. 1500): Discuss and critique what have been found, main
contributions and limitations of various authors/scholars whose work you have
reviewed, different schools of thoughts, and what is missing. |
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Conclusion (ca. 500): summarise the whole review study and point out
research gaps and future research directions. |
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References (Harvard style) |
Please use the correct Format for
your References |
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