@article{Steiner-Khamsi:294657,
      recid = {294657},
      author = {Steiner-Khamsi, Gita and Stolpe, Ines},
      title = {Non-traveling 'best practices' for a traveling population  the case of nomadic education in Mongolia},
      address = {2005},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      abstract = {This article deals with a particular 'best practice' in  Mongolia (boarding schools) that neither traveled elsewhere  nor was rescued from the socialist past and adopted in the  post-socialist present. The boarding schools accommodating  children from nomadic herder families have experienced a  long decade (1991-2003) of neglect. The boarding school  system of the twenty-first century has ceased to be a  universal institution catering to a nomadic population, and  has been transformed into a socially stratified system that  mostly attracts students from poor families (nomadic and  otherwise) who could not afford to entertain alternative  living arrangements for their school-aged children. The  authors treat nomadic education in Mongolia as an  interesting case of a 'transfer vacuum.' The authors  investigate the political and economic reasons for this  immunity towards 'lessons from elsewhere' or 'lessons from  the past,' and draw conclusions for research on educational  policy borrowing and lending.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/294657},
}