Primary school teacher deployment : a comparative study / edited by Fatimah Kelleher ; reports by Kabiru Isyaku ... [and others]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Isyaku, Kabiru, 1953-

Kelleher, Fatimah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elementary school teachers--Employment.

Elementary school teachers.

Elementary school teachers--Selection and appointment.

Deployment (Strategy).

Physical Description:

x, 82 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Commonwealth Secretariat, [2008]

Summary:

Ensuring Education for All at the primary school level is not just a matter of recruiting enough teachers: they must be deployed effectively across the education system. Even countries with sufficient total numbers of teachers may have shortages in some areas, or be unsuccessful in recruiting female teachers, with consequences for the participation rate of girls in schools.

Primary School Teacher Deployment presents four detailed studies, from countries with low net educational enrolment levels: Nigeria, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea and Pakistan. The book demonstrates the effects of inequitable teacher deployment, and the attempts to address these problems at the country level.

The contributors make overall recommendations on deployment policies and practices in a number of areas to assist educational planners to achieve Education for All goals, particularly with regard to female teachers, but also dealing with training and recruitment, in-service training, teacher incentives, teacher utilisation, and effective decentralisation.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

Background 1

Context 2

Nigeria 3

Pakistan 5

Papua New Guinea 6

Tanzania 8

Methodology 8

2 Comparative Situational Analysis 11

Country overviews 11

Unpacking sub-national disparities 13

Rural/urban disparities 15

Gender disparities 25

Teacher qualifications 31

Challenges to equitable teacher deployment 37

3 Policies and Practices 43

Teacher deployment systems 43

Nigeria 44

Pakistan 45

Papua New Guinea 45

Tanzania 46

Teacher provision cycle 46

Teacher education and training 46

Recruitment, placement and transfer 53

Teacher utilisation as a compensatory alternative 64

Myriad experiences and challenges 68

4 Conclusions and Recommendations 71.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-82)

ISBN:

9780850928839

0850928834

OCLC:

268792775