Education for all and multigrade teaching : challenges and opportunities / edited by Angela W. Little.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Little, Angela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Combination of grades.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

xix, 362 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2006]

Summary:

Multigrade teaching poses a challenge to learning. Millions of learners worldwide are taught by teachers who, at any one time, are responsible for two or more school grades/years. These are the invisible multigrade teachers who struggle to provide learning opportunities for all within curriculum and teacher education systems designed for monograded classes. In many countries multigraded classes arise out of necessity and are regarded as second class education. Yet in some parts of the world learning and teaching in multigraded settings is embraced as the pedagogy of choice, offering equivalent, and sometime superior, learning opportunities. Multigrade teaching provides an opportunity for improved learning.

This book is based on original research on challenges and opportunities in Colombia, England, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Peru, Turks and Caicos and Vietnam. Its purpose is to raise awareness among educational policymakers and practitioners worldwide of the realities of multigrade classes in the context of Education for All, and to explore the implications for teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers and educational planners.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Education for all: multigrade realities and histories / Angela W. Little 1

Chapter 2 Learning opportunities for all: pedagogy in multigrade and monograde classrooms in the Turks and Caicos Islands / Chris Berry 27

Chapter 3 A multigrade approach to literacy in the Amazon, Peru: school and community perspectives / Patricia Ames 47

Chapter 4 Multigrade teaching in London, England / Chris Berry, Angela W. Little 67

Chapter 5 Multigrade teachers and their training in rural Nepal / Takako Suzuki 87

Chapter 6 Prepared for diversity? Teacher education for lower primary classes in Malawi / Alison Croft 103

Chapter 7 Adapting the primary mathematics curriculum to the multigrade classroom in rural Sri Lanka / Manjula Vithanapathirana 127

Chapter 8 Improving the quality of health education in multigrade schools in Vietnam / T. Son Vu, Pat Pridmore 155

Chapter 9 Adapting the curriculum for teaching health in multigrade classes in Vietnam / Pat Pridmore, Vu Son 169

Chapter 10 EFA for pastoralists in North Sudan: a mobile multigrade model of schooling / Sheila Aikman, Hanan El Haj 193

Chapter 11 Extending basic education to out-of-school children in Northern Ghana: what can multigrade schooling teach us? / Albert Kwame Akyeampong 215

Chapter 12 Costs and finance of multigrade strategies for learning: how do the books balance? / Keith M. Lewin 239

Chapter 13 Escuela nueva's impact on the peaceful social interaction of children in Colombia / Clemente Forero-Pineda, Daniel Escobar-Rodriguez, Danielken Molina 265

Chapter 14 Multigrade lessons for EFA: a synthesis / Angela W. Little 300

Plates 349.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402045905

OCLC:

68629657

Publisher Number:

9781402045905