David H Monk
Biographic Data
| ID | 712092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David H Monk |
| GIVEN NAMES | David H |
| FAMILY NAME | Monk |
| SIGNATURE | MONK D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9178-6576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach
The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue ‘Childhoods and South-South Migration’ was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 38, Issue 5. This article should be cited as shown below. Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach David Monk, Elizabeth Walton, Roda Madziva, George Opio, Annemaaike Kruisselbrink, George Ladaah O…
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach
This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3‐year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities and their families face as they navigate their educational experiences and seek out opportunities to live well. The authors seek to make a contribution towards improving educational experiences by first…
Education for disabled refugees in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe: A cross-case analysis
International treaties mandate the educational inclusion of refugees and disabled people, but many remain excluded with disabled refugees facing compounded exclusions. We compare research about educational access and inclusion for disabled refugees in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Uganda, with data generated from policy analyses and interviews with disabled refugee students and families, education officials and NGOs. A vertical cross-case analysis …
Revisiting VET research paradigms: Critical perspectives from the South
This paper reflects on a large multisite funded VET research project conducted by a large and diverse research team. Reflecting on two of our case studies, from Uganda and South Africa, we consider both the need for broadening the VET research agenda to incorporate more research on non-formal sites of vocational learning and work, and the imperative of continued critical reflection on modalities of researching the formal sphere. What we offer is …
The gendered postconflict city: Possibilities for more livable urban transformations in Gulu, northern Uganda
Scholars acknowledge that postconflict urbanism is undertheorized and underdeveloped for practical governance or sustainable urban management, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, which has unfortunately experienced significant conflict in the post-independence period. We argue that postconflict redevelopment theory and practice under appreciates liminal spaces and the precarious existence of postconflict people, especially postconflict women. We ex…
Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa
International conventions acknowledge the right of refugees and of disabled people to access quality inclusive education. Both groups struggle to assert this right, particularly in the Global South, where educational access may be hindered by system constraints, resource limitations and negative attitudes. Our concern is the intersectional and compounding effect of being a disabled refugee in Sub-Saharan Africa. Disabled refugees have been invisi…
Deans' Corner: Views on the State of Teacher Education in 2015
This article presents responses from four College of Education deans to a series of questions posed by the Penn State University Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) editorial team
Reflections on Teacher Preparation
Committee Inquiries in the Australian Parliament and their Influence on Government: Government Acceptance of Recommendations as a Measure of Parliamentary Performance
Committees in the Australian parliament often make recommendations to government and attempt to persuade the government to accept them. Using a sample of committee reports tabled between the 2001 and 2004 elections, this paper measures the government acceptance of committee recommendations as a proxy for committees' influence. On average, the government stated it accepted three majority recommendations out of 11 per report, although this figure d…
A Framework for Evaluating the Performance of Committees in Westminster Parliaments
There has been a recent trend in the literature on committees in Westminster parliaments to evaluate their performance through their impact on different groups such as the government, media and the parliament. This paper uses this literature to develop a
Recruiting and Retaining High-Quality Teachers in Rural Areas
In examining recruitment and retention of teachers in rural areas, David Monk begins by noting the numerous possible characteristics of rural communities—small size, sparse settlement, distance from population concentrations, and an economic reliance on agricultural industries that are increasingly using seasonal and immigrant workers to minimize labor costs. Many, though not all, rural areas, he says, are seriously impoverished. Classes in rural…
Resource-Based Indicators for Educational Accountability and School District Improvement
How and Where the Education Dollar Is Spent
Locally elected school boards have the authority and responsibility to decide how school budgets will be spent. In doing so, however, they must balance multiple funding restrictions and competing priorities. Despite great variance in local circumstances, most school districts have remarkably similar spending patterns, generally allocating from 60% to 63% of their budget to instruction and dividing the remainder among student services such as heal…
Subject area preparation of secondary mathematics and science teachers and student achievement
Predictors of High School Academic Course Offerings: The Role of School Size
Relationships between high school structural characteristics and curricular offerings are examined in this study using survey data from High School and Beyond. Emphasis is placed on the role played by high school size. The study’s central thesis is that the effects of school size on the curriculum will vary depending on subject area, the character of the course being offered (e.g., advanced versus remedial), and the setting in which the school is…
Compensating Teachers without Worrying about Unions or Economics
Politicians, Judges, and City Schools: Reforming School Finance in New York
Reforming Teacher Compensation
Patterns of Absence and Pupil Achievement
Student absences throughout the school year vary in timing and number. Similarly, classrooms vary in the total number of pupil days of absence, in the distribution of absences throughout all school days, and in the degree to which the same students are repeatedly absent. This paper compares these and other aspects of absentee patterns with pupils’ performance on a standardized ninth grade algebra examination. Results indicate that patterns of abs…
Predictors of High School Academic Course Offerings: The Role of School Size
Relationships between high school structural characteristics and curricular offerings are examined in this study using survey data from High School and Beyond. Emphasis is placed on the role played by high school size. The study’s central thesis is that the effects of school size on the curriculum will vary depending on subject area, the character of the course being offered (e.g., advanced versus remedial), and the setting in which the school is…
Committee Inquiries in the Australian Parliament and their Influence on Government: Government Acceptance of Recommendations as a Measure of Parliamentary Performance
Committees in the Australian parliament often make recommendations to government and attempt to persuade the government to accept them. Using a sample of committee reports tabled between the 2001 and 2004 elections, this paper measures the government acceptance of committee recommendations as a proxy for committees' influence. On average, the government stated it accepted three majority recommendations out of 11 per report, although this figure d…
A Framework for Evaluating the Performance of Committees in Westminster Parliaments
There has been a recent trend in the literature on committees in Westminster parliaments to evaluate their performance through their impact on different groups such as the government, media and the parliament. This paper uses this literature to develop a
Patterns of Absence and Pupil Achievement
Student absences throughout the school year vary in timing and number. Similarly, classrooms vary in the total number of pupil days of absence, in the distribution of absences throughout all school days, and in the degree to which the same students are repeatedly absent. This paper compares these and other aspects of absentee patterns with pupils’ performance on a standardized ninth grade algebra examination. Results indicate that patterns of abs…
Deans' Corner: Views on the State of Teacher Education in 2015
This article presents responses from four College of Education deans to a series of questions posed by the Penn State University Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) editorial team
The gendered postconflict city: Possibilities for more livable urban transformations in Gulu, northern Uganda
Scholars acknowledge that postconflict urbanism is undertheorized and underdeveloped for practical governance or sustainable urban management, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, which has unfortunately experienced significant conflict in the post-independence period. We argue that postconflict redevelopment theory and practice under appreciates liminal spaces and the precarious existence of postconflict people, especially postconflict women. We ex…
Resource-Based Indicators for Educational Accountability and School District Improvement
Patterns of Absence and Pupil Achievement
Student absences throughout the school year vary in timing and number. Similarly, classrooms vary in the total number of pupil days of absence, in the distribution of absences throughout all school days, and in the degree to which the same students are repeatedly absent. This paper compares these and other aspects of absentee patterns with pupils’ performance on a standardized ninth grade algebra examination. Results indicate that patterns of abs…
Reforming Teacher Compensation
Politicians, Judges, and City Schools: Reforming School Finance in New York
Compensating Teachers without Worrying about Unions or Economics
Predictors of High School Academic Course Offerings: The Role of School Size
Relationships between high school structural characteristics and curricular offerings are examined in this study using survey data from High School and Beyond. Emphasis is placed on the role played by high school size. The study’s central thesis is that the effects of school size on the curriculum will vary depending on subject area, the character of the course being offered (e.g., advanced versus remedial), and the setting in which the school is…
Subject area preparation of secondary mathematics and science teachers and student achievement
How and Where the Education Dollar Is Spent
Locally elected school boards have the authority and responsibility to decide how school budgets will be spent. In doing so, however, they must balance multiple funding restrictions and competing priorities. Despite great variance in local circumstances, most school districts have remarkably similar spending patterns, generally allocating from 60% to 63% of their budget to instruction and dividing the remainder among student services such as heal…
Resource-Based Indicators for Educational Accountability and School District Improvement
Recruiting and Retaining High-Quality Teachers in Rural Areas
In examining recruitment and retention of teachers in rural areas, David Monk begins by noting the numerous possible characteristics of rural communities—small size, sparse settlement, distance from population concentrations, and an economic reliance on agricultural industries that are increasingly using seasonal and immigrant workers to minimize labor costs. Many, though not all, rural areas, he says, are seriously impoverished. Classes in rural…
A Framework for Evaluating the Performance of Committees in Westminster Parliaments
There has been a recent trend in the literature on committees in Westminster parliaments to evaluate their performance through their impact on different groups such as the government, media and the parliament. This paper uses this literature to develop a
Committee Inquiries in the Australian Parliament and their Influence on Government: Government Acceptance of Recommendations as a Measure of Parliamentary Performance
Committees in the Australian parliament often make recommendations to government and attempt to persuade the government to accept them. Using a sample of committee reports tabled between the 2001 and 2004 elections, this paper measures the government acceptance of committee recommendations as a proxy for committees' influence. On average, the government stated it accepted three majority recommendations out of 11 per report, although this figure d…
Deans' Corner: Views on the State of Teacher Education in 2015
This article presents responses from four College of Education deans to a series of questions posed by the Penn State University Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) editorial team
Reflections on Teacher Preparation
Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa
International conventions acknowledge the right of refugees and of disabled people to access quality inclusive education. Both groups struggle to assert this right, particularly in the Global South, where educational access may be hindered by system constraints, resource limitations and negative attitudes. Our concern is the intersectional and compounding effect of being a disabled refugee in Sub-Saharan Africa. Disabled refugees have been invisi…
The gendered postconflict city: Possibilities for more livable urban transformations in Gulu, northern Uganda
Scholars acknowledge that postconflict urbanism is undertheorized and underdeveloped for practical governance or sustainable urban management, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, which has unfortunately experienced significant conflict in the post-independence period. We argue that postconflict redevelopment theory and practice under appreciates liminal spaces and the precarious existence of postconflict people, especially postconflict women. We ex…
Revisiting VET research paradigms: Critical perspectives from the South
This paper reflects on a large multisite funded VET research project conducted by a large and diverse research team. Reflecting on two of our case studies, from Uganda and South Africa, we consider both the need for broadening the VET research agenda to incorporate more research on non-formal sites of vocational learning and work, and the imperative of continued critical reflection on modalities of researching the formal sphere. What we offer is …
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach
This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3‐year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities and their families face as they navigate their educational experiences and seek out opportunities to live well. The authors seek to make a contribution towards improving educational experiences by first…
Education for disabled refugees in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe: A cross-case analysis
International treaties mandate the educational inclusion of refugees and disabled people, but many remain excluded with disabled refugees facing compounded exclusions. We compare research about educational access and inclusion for disabled refugees in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Uganda, with data generated from policy analyses and interviews with disabled refugee students and families, education officials and NGOs. A vertical cross-case analysis …
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach
The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue ‘Childhoods and South-South Migration’ was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 38, Issue 5. This article should be cited as shown below. Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach David Monk, Elizabeth Walton, Roda Madziva, George Opio, Annemaaike Kruisselbrink, George Ladaah O…
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