Effective Schools in Developing Countries
Published on 27. January 1993
Book
Hardback
188 pages
978-0-7507-0173-0 (ISBN)
Description
Eight case studies of initiatives to improve schools for rural or disadvantaged children are provided: the New School Programme in Columbia, the Democratic School Model (CIEP) in Brazil, a plantation school in Sri Lanka, the local improvement efforts in Thailand, the education programme for futal development in Nepal, the school reform in Ghana, strategies for providing education in Burundi and the Accelerated Schools in United States. The studies found that effective schools share several common features with respect to provision of necessary inputs, existence of facilitating conditions and the will to change. The book is unique in its focus on developing countries and good schools for impoverished children. It is aimed at MEd, postgraduate education students and lectures in international, comparative education. Developmental workers in NGOs, teachers in developing countries.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7507-0173-0 (9780750701730)
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Content
Creating effective schools, M.E. Lockheed and H.M. Levin; the condition of primary education in developing countries, M.E. Lockheed; how can schooling help improve the lives of the poorest? - the need for radical reform, N. Bennett; the new school programme - more and better primary education for children in rural areas in Colombia, V. Colbert, et al; CIEP - a democratic school model for educating economically disadvantaged students in Brazil?, A.C. Leonardos; improving education effectiveness in a plantation school - the case of the Gonakelle school in Sri Lanka, A. Little and R. Sivasithambaram; local initiatives and their implications for a multi-level approach to school improvement in Thailand, M.C. Tsang and C. Wheeler; providing quality education when resources are scarce - strategies for increasing primary school effectiveness in Brundi, T.O. Eisemon, et al; accelerated schools in the United States - do they have relevance for developing countries?, H.M. Levin.