Improving Schools Through Teacher Development: Case Studies of the Aga Khan Foundation Projects in East Africa

ISBN-13: 9789026519369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 334 str.

Anderson, Stephen E.

Opis

This book presents a story of school improvement activity in East Africa from 1985 to 2000, which focused on sustained teacher development. The core of the book consists of six evaluations of school-and district-wide school improvement projects (SIPs) supported by the Aga Khan Foundation in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. The case studies present an evolving body of knowledge about the successes and challenges of a comprehensive approach to school improvement grounded in a common set of strategic principles.
The strategic principles embody the belief that the chances for quality improvement in teaching and learning are greater when change efforts
*are school-based,
*involve whole schools as the unit of change,
*emphasize the ongoing professional development of teachers,
*attend to school management and organizational conditions affecting the capacity of teachers to implement change,
* prepare for the institutionalization of organizational structures and processes that enable continuous school development, and
*evolve through partnerships among relevant education stakeholders.
The book concludes with commentaries by international experts in school improvement and teacher development on the SIP project designs, implementation and outcomes, and on lessons that can be drawn from the projects and their evaluations for school improvement policy, practice and theory in developing and developed countries around the world.

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Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1 The Double Mirrors of School Improvement: The Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa
Stephen E. Anderson
Chapter 2 Evolution in School Improvement with the Aga Khan Foundation, from 1984 to 2000
Jeremy Greenland
Chapter 3 Building Professional Community at Mzizima Secondary School, Tanzania
Stephen E. Anderson and Suleman Sumra
Chapter 4 Conflict Between National Curriculum Standards and Efforts to Improve Teaching
Joanne Capper, Shelom Nderitu and Paul Ogula
Chapter 5 Supporting Child-Centered Teaching under Universal Primary Education in Kampala, Uganda
Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Matthew Odada and Martin Omagor
Chapter 6 Decentralized Partnerships for School-Based Teacher Development in Mombasa, Kenya
Stephen E. Anderson and Shelom Nderitu
Chapter 7 Incentive Grants, Management Training, and Teacher Change in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Geoff Welford and Herme Mosha
Chapter 8 Curriculum Materials and In-Service Training for English-Medium Instruction in Zanzibar
Ann Brumfit and H. R. H. Hikmany
Chapter 9 The Aga Khan Foundation Experience Compared with Emerging Alternatives to Formal Schooling
Joseph P. Farrell
Chapter 10 The Aga Khan Foundation School Improvement Initiative: An International Change Perspective
David Hopkins
Notes
References
Contributors
Index

O autorze

S.E. Anderson