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Continuing Professional Teacher Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Yusuf Sayed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474277888
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Continuing Professional Teacher Development in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Yusuf Sayed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing Professional Teacher Development in Sub-Saharan Africa explores the prospects that the on-going continuous professional development (CPD) of teachers working in schools offers for meaningful change, particularly towards improving the quality of educational provision for the majority of the continent's children. By reflecting on teacher professional development efforts and their place in broader education reforms, the book highlights the challenges of teacher CPD in these education contexts - contexts strongly shaped by endemic poverty, under-development and social upheaval. The collection draws together examples of innovation and resilience, and the valuing of teachers as critical role players, enabled and empowered through their on-going development as education professionals. Drawing together a wealth of experience, the volume identifies the policy and research implications for the future of CPD across the continent, providing important lessons that can be integrated into a post-2015 development agenda for Africa.

Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Rosarii Griffin
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1873927363
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Rosarii Griffin and published by Symposium Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the drive to achieve universal primary education as one of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing recognition of the urgency of focusing on teacher education to both meet the demand for more than one million qualified teachers required to achieve this goal within sub-Saharan Africa, as well as to combat the sometimes poor quality educational experience reported in the school. Currently, approximately only one third of teachers are qualified to teach. This dearth in qualified teachers also means that secondary and tertiary education need to be improved upon to provide an educated cohort of graduates. This in turn will ensure that the quality of teacher trained and retained within the profession is of a sufficiently high standard to ensure sustainable progress. This volume focuses on the various aspects of teacher education which need to be addressed in order for the wider Millennium Goals to be achieved, but more importantly, so that each African child living within sub-Saharan Africa will have the right to a quality education: ensuring they too experience their right and entitlement as children to reach their full potential - often taken for granted in Western countries – giving African children the necessary tools to build a better future for themselves. Of particular interest to the education researcher and policy maker, this volume’s contributors look at the various issues and challenges around the teacher profession, particularly in relation to resources and practices within sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors examine the issue of building research capacity for educational research within teacher education Colleges and explore the concept of education for sustainable development with the view to improving the development of quality teacher education within the global South. In this volume, research reports are presented highlighting the various challenges within the structure and provision of teacher education within certain national contexts, including assessment and curricula issues, which need to be addressed. This volume goes from the global to the local and examines teacher educator teaching, learning and reflective practice issues within different contexts, as well as exploring alternative pre-service experiences for western teachers who wish to work within the sub-Saharan context as well as some teacher educator exchange programmes between the South and North. Case countries explored include Lesotho, South Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar, to mention but a few. Of particular value to the education researcher and policy maker, this book provides a timely resource focusing on an area of neglect, highlighting the central role of the teacher and teacher education towards sustainable development within the sub-Saharan African context.

Improving the quality of teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231002619
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Improving the quality of teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recruiting, Retaining, and Retraining Secondary School Teachers and Principals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821370677
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Recruiting, Retaining, and Retraining Secondary School Teachers and Principals in Sub-Saharan Africa written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This working paper is based on country case studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda, and an extensive literature review. In many parts of Africa, the demand for secondary teachers substantially exceeds the supply, due to factors such as secondary teacher attrition, bottlenecks in the teacher preparation system, and perceived unattractive conditions of service. Few countries have strong policies, strategies, and programs for recruiting able secondary school graduates to secondary teaching. The paper suggests several critical and promising areas for improvement in th.

Developing Support Systems for Rural Teachers' Continuing Professional Development

Author : Zhao Yuchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789353288716
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Developing Support Systems for Rural Teachers' Continuing Professional Development written by Zhao Yuchi and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of the good practices in teacher support systems around the world!What do rural school teachers need and how can they be supported in their continuing professional development? How can a teacher support system be set up and function in a certain context? What factors would guarantee success of the system? This book tries to answer these questions by taking five case studies from very different contexts and countries--Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Romania--but with a common topic: 'developing teacher support systems in rural areas for their continuing professional development'.

Teachers in Anglophone Africa

Author : Aidan G Mulkeen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821380710
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Teachers in Anglophone Africa written by Aidan G Mulkeen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers are at the heart of good education, and good teacher policies are essential to ensure adequate supply, deployment and management of teachers. Enrollment in primary education has grown rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet teacher policy in the region has oft en evolved without clear planning; in the absence of an overall strategy, countries have experienced serious problems with teacher supply and deployment, as well as with the quality of teaching. Based on case studies of education systems and practices in eight English-speaking African countries, 'Teachers in Anglophone Africa: Issues in Teacher Supply, Training, and Management' closely examines issues of teacher supply, deployment, management and finance. The book suggests that these issues are closely interrelated. Low numbers of qualified teaching graduates may result in teacher shortages; these shortages may make it difficult to deploy teachers effectively. Problems with teacher deployment may result in inefficient utilization of the teachers available, and those teachers' effectiveness may be further reduced by weak teacher management and support systems. The book identifies policies and practices that are working on the ground, noting their potential pitfalls and pointing out that policies designed to address one problem may make another problem worse. 'Teachers in Anglophone Africa: Issues in Teacher Supply, Training, and Management' offers a useful synthesis of the issues and draws together a series of promising practices, which can serve as positive suggestions for countries seeking to improve their teacher policies. The book should be of great assistance to education ministries and their development partners throughout the region as they address the challenges of the next phases of expansion in education.

Embedding Social Justice in Teacher Education and Development in Africa

Author : Carmel McNaught
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000343189
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Embedding Social Justice in Teacher Education and Development in Africa by : Carmel McNaught

Download or read book Embedding Social Justice in Teacher Education and Development in Africa written by Carmel McNaught and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the plethora of social-justice issues facing teacher education and development in Africa. Using both theoretical and empirical perspectives, it considers the need for teacher education to be transformational and address conventional pedagogy as well as the rights and duties of all citizens. The edited volume focuses on a wide range of relevant aspects, such as decolonisation, economic models, environmental concerns, as well as multilingual and multicultural aspects of education. Evidence-based chapters cover strategies used to support preservice and in-service teachers on how best to tackle issues of social justice through induction activities, pedagogy and discipline content, involving local communities, and the role of technology, including the use of open educational resources. The principles underlying these strategies are being used in the COVID-19 pandemic and will be equally relevant in the post-COVID-19 world. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of teacher education, African education, educational policy, international education and comparative education.

A review of the use of contract teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9230011878
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A review of the use of contract teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa written by International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women Teachers in Africa

Author : Nelly P. Stromquist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315412357
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Women Teachers in Africa written by Nelly P. Stromquist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through qualitative research methods, this book engages in a holistic understanding of cultural, economic, and institutional forces that interact to produce the underrepresentation of women as school teachers in four sub-Saharan African countries. Comparative case studies at the national level, using a common research design, show that teaching, despite being an attractive civil service job, offers low salaries and many challenges, especially when it takes place in rural areas. Combining professional duties with demanding family responsibilities further diminishes women’s ability to stay in the teaching profession. The studies in this book attempt to bridge research findings with policy by developing action plans in cooperation with ministries of education of the respective countries. Women Teachers in Africa will be of interest to academic researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in the relevant fields, as well as development professionals, aid agency staff and education policy experts.

Multigrade Teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Aidan G Mulkeen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821380765
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Multigrade Teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Aidan G Mulkeen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, with the expansion of coverage of primary education in recent decades, many of the remaining out-of-school children are in hard to reach areas, with low population density and poor transport. Providing access to education is challenging in such contexts, as the population in any village is often too small to support a conventional primary school. One of the answers is the use of multigrade teaching, where one teacher works with students of two or more grades. This paper examines the practice of multigrade teaching in three African countries, Uganda, Senegal, and The Gambia. Although these three cases had very different approaches to multigrade, their experiences suggest that multigrade teaching is a promising and cost-effective option, but that successful implementation requires sustained support from policymakers, adequate training of teachers, and careful explanation of the approach to parents and the communities.

Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Miriam Mason
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801175047
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa written by Miriam Mason and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa describes the planning, delivery and evaluation of an improvement programme by EducAid. The evaluation showed that children in schools, whose teachers had taken part in the programme, made more progress in literacy, attendance and behaviour than children in control schools.

Supporting Teachers through Policy Development

Author : International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231005898
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Supporting Teachers through Policy Development written by International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teaching and Learning in Context

Author : Richard Tabulawa
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869785690
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Learning in Context written by Richard Tabulawa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented attempts at reforming teacher and student classroom practices, with a learner-centred pedagogy regarded as an effective antidote to the prevalence of teacher-centred didactic classroom practices. Attempts at reform have been going on all over the continent. In fact, learner-centred pedagogy has been described as one of the most pervasive educational ideas in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Research has revealed that the major attempts have largely failed mainly because teachers have not been able to adopt instructional innovations to technical problems. This failure is also related to lack of resources, and poor teacher training programmes which lead to poor teacher quality, among others. This book attempts to explain why pedagogical change has not occurred in spite of the much energy and resources that have been committed to such reforms.The book also takes us inside what the author calls 'the socio-cultural world of African classrooms' to help us understand the reasons teachers dominate classroom life and rely disproportionately on didactic methods of teaching. Its conceptual analyses capture the best of both the sociology and the anthropology of education in contexts of poverty, as well as the politics of education.The book concludes that a socio-cultural approach should be the basis for developing culturally responsive indigenous pedagogies, though these may or may not turn out to be in any way akin to constructivist learner-centred pedagogies.

International Handbook on the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers

Author : Christopher Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Handbook on the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers written by Christopher Day and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handbook brings together theoretical and empirical research on purposes, policies and practices of teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) over the last twenty years." --book cover.

In Service for Teacher Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Martin Monk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861920744
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book In Service for Teacher Development in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Martin Monk and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reports a review of journal articles listed in the British Education Index and the Cumulative Index of Journals of Education under the keywords of "inset" or "inservice" and either Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, or one of the 50 sub-Saharan African countries by name. Reports from Nigeria and South Africa form a substantial part of the literature. The paper reviews the articles by subject: (1) "Conditions in Which Teachers Work," (2) "Variation in Teachers' Backgrounds, Practices, and In-service Needs," (3) "Teachers Changing Their Own Practice," (4) "In-service Activities Provide New Knowledge and Skills," (5) "Use of Distance Education," (6) "School Administration, Organization, and Whole School Policies," (7) "Sustainable Change versus Radical Solutions," and (8)"Closing Commentary." The paper also reviews the articles in reverse chronological order. Finally, the paper presents listings by country. (SM)

Teaching in Tension

Author : Frances Vavrus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462092249
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Teaching in Tension written by Frances Vavrus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, international efforts to improve educational quality in sub-Saharan Africa have focused on promoting learner-centered pedagogy. However, it has not fl ourished for cultural, economic, and political reasons that often go unrecognized by development organizations and policymakers. This edited volume draws on a long-term collaboration between African and American educational researchers in addressing critical questions regarding how teachers in one African country—Tanzania—conceptualize learner-centered pedagogy and struggle to implement it under challenging material conditions. One chapter considers how international support for learner-centered pedagogy has infl uenced national policies. Subsequent chapters utilize qualitative data from classroom observations, interviews, and focus group discussions across six Tanzanian secondary schools to examine how such policies shape local practices of professional development, inclusion, gender, and classroom discourse. In addition, the volume presents an analysis of the benefi ts and challenges of international research between Tanzanian and U.S. scholars, illuminating the complexity of collaboration as it simultaneously presents the outcome of joint research on teachers’ beliefs and practices. The chapters conclude with questions for discussion that can be used in courses on international development, social policy, and teacher education. “This volume, written by a multi-national team of scholar-practitioners, makes an important contribution to our understanding of learner-centered teaching and collaborative educational research. Based on an intensive investigation in Tanzania of a professional development program and teachers’ efforts to conceptualize and implement a globally-promoted pedagogical approach, the authors illustrate – and critically analyze – how these practices are enabled and constrained by cultural lenses, power relations, and material conditions. Importantly, they also examine refl exively how cultural, power, and resource issues shaped their struggle to engage in a collective praxis of qualitative inquiry. The tensions referenced in the title sparked valuable insights, which will be useful to educators, researchers, and policy makers.” — Mark Ginsburg, FHI 360 and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Recruiting, Retaining, and Retraining Secondary School Teachers and Principals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Aidan Mulkeen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894920189
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Recruiting, Retaining, and Retraining Secondary School Teachers and Principals in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Aidan Mulkeen and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared for the World Bank through the Academy for Educational Development (AED) and funded by the Irish Trust Fund. This study uses an extensive literature review and subsequent field studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda to identify current trends, challenges, and opportunities in the recruitment, retention, and retraining of secondary teachers and principals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study also suggests ways of attracting teachers to the profession, retaining teachers and principals in the profession, and providing support to strengthen teachersand principals effectiveness.