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School-University Partnerships for Educational Change in Rural South Africa : Particular Challenges and Practical Cases
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Islam, Faisal.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College-school cooperation--South Africa.
- Education, Rural--South Africa.
- Educational change--South Africa.
- Teachers--Training of--South Africa.
- College-school cooperation--Training of--South Africa.
- College-school cooperation.
- Education, Rural.
- Teachers--South Africa.
- Teachers.
- Educational change.
- Local Subjects:
- College-school cooperation--South Africa.
- Education, Rural--South Africa.
- Educational change--South Africa.
- Teachers--Training of--South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Partnerships for Hope: School-University Collaborations for Educational Change in Rural South Africa explores the importance of improving teacher preparation, especially for those who will be teaching in rural areas since this can also be an entry point for supporting teachers, learners, and the community as a whole. In Essence, teacher preparation for working in rural areas can be regarded as a development path in and of itself a hopeful one that invests in young people who choose teaching as a career.The book draws together a series of chapters by new and leading scholars working in the area
- Contents:
- SCHOOL-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA: Particular Challenges and Practical Cases; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Chapter One: School-University Partnerships for Educational Change: An Introduction; Section One: Framing the Study of School-University Collaborations in Rural Contexts; Chapter Two: Understanding Rurality in the Troubling Context: Prospects and Challenges; Chapter Three: School-University Partnerships in Preparing NewTeachers: Possibilities and Limitations
- Chapter Four: Transforming Teacher Education? A Rural Teacher Education Project ExperienceSection Two: Every Voice Counts in Preservice Teacher Education: Multiple Perspectives on Pedagogy; Chapter Five: The Challenge of Teaching in Under-Resourced Schools: A Reflection on Preservice Teachers' Journals; Chapter Six: Taking Photographs, Forming Partnerships; Chapter Seven : Finding Allies and Making Connections in Rural Classrooms in Addressing HIV and AIDS; Chapter Eight: A University-School Partnership in Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work in Rural Schools: A Case Study of Blogging
- Chapter Nine: After-School Engagement Activities, Teacher Education, and Service Learning in a Rural School in KwaZulu-Natal: Challenges and OpportunitiesChapter Ten: Youth as Knowledge Producers: Re-Visioning Teacher/Learner Roles Through Extracurricular Activities; Section Three: A Hopeful Pedagogy; Chapter Eleven: What Do Schools Gain? One School's Perspective on the School-University Partnership; Chapter Twelve: The Experiences and Expectations of Mentor Teachers in Two Rural Schools; Chapter Thirteen: Landscape Shapes Mindscape: Partnerships as Agency in a Community of Learning
- Chapter Fourteen: ""What Will We Do With 24 Ducks?"": Building Community PartnershipsEpilogue: New Teachers for New Times ... and New Places; List of Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-1747-8
- OCLC:
- 818117098
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