Education for All and Multigrade Teaching: Challenges and Opportunities / Edition 1

by Angela W. Little

Overview

This book, based on original research, explores the challenges and opportunities in multigrade teaching in Colombia, England, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Peru, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Vietnam. It raises awareness among policymakers and practitioners in education of the realities of multigrade classes. Moreover, the book explores the implications for teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers, and educational planners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402066474
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/07/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006. 2nd printing 2007
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Education for all: multigrade realities and histories.- Learning opportunities for all: pedagogy in multigrade and monograde classrooms in the Turks and Caicos Islands.- A multigrade approach to literacy in the Amazon, Peru: school and community perspectives.- Multigrade teaching in London,England.- Multigrade teachers and their training in rural Nepal.- Prepared for diversity? Teacher education for lower primary classes in Malawi.- Adapting the primary mathematics curriculum to the multigrade classroom in rural Sri Lanka.- Improving the quality of health education in multigrade schools in Vietnam.- Adapting the curriculum for teaching health in multigrade classes in Vietnam.- EFA for pastoralists in North Sudan: a mobile multigrade model of schooling.- Extending basic education to out-of-school children in Northern Ghana: what can multigrade schooling.- Costs and finance of multigrade strategies for learning: how do the books balance.- Escuela nueva's impact on the peaceful social interaction of children in Colombia.- Multigrade lessons for EFA: a synthesis.