A Common Wealth of Learning: Millennium Development Goals Revisited

ISBN-13: 9780415644839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

John Macbeath; Mike Younger

Opis

A Common Wealth of Learning takes a look at the millennium development goals that were set out at the start of the century. Utilising a far reaching set of case studies from a large percentage of commonwealth countries, this book looks at what the colonial legacy has left us with; and what we can do to progress. Chapters discuss; Partnerships for Leadership and Learning Quality Education and the Millennium Development Goals Revisited: Reflections, Reality and Future Directions. Assessing the Impact of Education Sector Policy Reform in Low-Income Countries: Developing a Comprehensive, Intervention-Focused Research Programme Education of Quality for All: Myth or Reality Bridging the Gap Between Research, Policy and Practice in Africa Transformative Models of Practice and Professional Development of Teachers Partnerships for Leading and Learning: The Contribution of the Centre for Commonwealth Education This thoroughly researched and comprehensive text will be of great interest and use to anyone involved in education, higher education, education policy and research.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Beyond the Colonial Legacy  Section 1. Partnerships for Leadership and Learning  Synopsis  Chapter 2. Pedagogy and Leadership in a Tanzanian Primary School: A Whole School Approach Exploring Classroom Realities in an Urban Setting  Chapter 3. Using Digital Technology and School-Based Professional Development to Leverage Interactive Classroom Teaching in Zambia  Chapter 4. Building Leadership Capacity, Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Ghanaian Basic Schools  Chapter 5. Factors Influencing Retention in Kenya and Uganda  Chapter 6. Learning about HIV/AIDS Education for Children Through Consultation and Dialogue with School Stakeholders  Section 2. A Common Wealth of Voices  Synopsis: Culture, gender, race and educational inequalities: The possibility of teachers achieving the impossible dream?  Chapter 7. Leading the Second Generation in the Wake of Apartheid: An Indirect Commentary on the Problem of Knowledge in the MDG/EFA Discourses on Access  Chapter 8. The Interface Between Monitoring Performance and How Data is Used: Striving to Enhance the Quality of Education in Schools  Chapter 9. Fighting the Wrong War? Gender, Poverty and Achievement in the Caribbean  Chapter 10. Multicultural Education in Primary Vernacular Schools: Predicament of the ‘Vision School’ Policy in Malaysia  Chapter 11. Gender Equity, School Leadership, and National Development in the Commonwealth contexts  Chapter 12. Gurukulums: Equity and Excellence in Educating Scheduled Tribes in India  Section 3. Millennium Development Goals Revisited: Perspectives from International Agencies  Synopsis: Quality Education and the Millennium Development Goals Revisited: Reflections, Reality and Future Directions  Chapter 13. Assessing the Impact of Education Sector Policy Reform in Low-Income Countries: Developing a Comprehensive, Intervention-Focused Research Programme  Chapter 14. Education of Quality for All: Myth or Reality!  Chapter 15. Off the Beaten Track: Bridging the Gap Between Research, Policy and Practice in Africa  Chapter 16. Transformative Models of Practice and Professional Development of Teachers  Conclusion. Partnerships for Leading and Learning: The Contribution of the Centre for Commonwealth Education

O autorze

John MacBeath is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, Director of 'Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network' and Projects Director for the Centre for Commonwealth Education.

Mike Younger is Director of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of Cambridge.