Improving schools through teacher development : case studies of the Aga Khan Foundation projects in East Africa / edited by Stephen E. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Stephen E.

Series:

Contexts of learning

Contexts of learning : classrooms, schools and society ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--Africa, East.

School improvement programs.

Africa, East.

Physical Description:

325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lisse, Netherlands ; Exton, PA : Swets & Zeitlinger, [2002]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Double Mirrors of School Improvement: The Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa / Stephen E. Anderson 1

Chapter 2 Evolution in School Improvement with the Aga Khan Foundation, from 1984 to 2000 / Jeremy Greenland 21

Chapter 3 Building Professional Community at Mzizima Secondary School, Tanzania / Stephen E. Anderson, Suleman Sumra 47

Chapter 4 Conflict Between National Curriculum Standards and Efforts to Improve Teaching / Joanne Capper, Shelom Nderitu, Paul Ogula 83

Chapter 5 Supporting Child-Centered Teaching under Universal Primary Education in Kampala, Uganda / Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Matthew Odada, Martin Omagor 117

Chapter 6 Decentralized Partnerships for School-Based Teacher Development in Mombasa, Kenya / Stephen E. Anderson, Shelom Nderitu 137

Chapter 7 Incentive Grants, Management Training, and Teacher Change in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania / Geoff Welford, Herme Mosha 185

Chapter 8 Curriculum Materials and In-Service Training for English-Medium Instruction in Zanzibar / Ann Brumfit, H. R. H. Hikmany 225

Chapter 9 The Aga Khan Foundation Experience Compared with Emerging Alternatives to Formal Schooling / Joseph P. Farrell 247

Chapter 10 The Aga Khan Foundation School Improvement Initiative: An International Change Perspective / David Hopkins 271.

Notes:

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographic references (pages [301]-312) and index.

ISBN:

9026519362

OCLC:

50993763