UID:
edocfu_9958061848802883
Format:
x, 42 pages :
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illustrations ;
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26 cm.
ISBN:
1-282-42220-0
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9786612422201
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0-8213-8076-1
Series Statement:
Africa human development series no. 173
Content:
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
Note:
"Education For All Fast Track Initiative."
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Executive Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Relevance of Multigrade Teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa; Table 1: Calculation of Population Required to Support a Full Primary School; Figure 1: GER and Distance to School, Rural Access Initiative; Table 2: Multigrade Classes/Schools in Developed Countries; Table 3: Estimates of the Proportion of Multigrade Classes or Schools in Developing Countries; 3. The Nature of Multigrade Teaching; Table 4: Primary Schools in Uganda with Less than Seven Teachers; 4. Multigrade Schooling in Practice
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Table 5: Pass Rate in the CFEE (Certificate of Elementary Completion), 2005-06Box 1: Reflections of a Teacher in a One-Teacher School (ECU); 5. Policy Issues for Multigrade Education; Box 2: Resource Materials-Escuela Nueva; Table 6: Comparison of Teacher Costs in Multigrade and Monograde Schools (based on seven grades in primary education); Box 3: Parents' Comments about Multigrade Schooling in Uganda; 6. Recommendations; Box 4: Senegalese Teachers' Comments about Multigrade Teaching; Box 5: A Multigrade Teacher's View; Box 6: Multigrade Teaching-An Experience in Lesotho
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Table 7: Uganda: Results for the 2005 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE)7. Conclusion; References
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-8065-6
Language:
English
