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Achieving Education for All : Dilemmas in System-Wide Reforms and Learning Outcomes in Africa.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498515252
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Achieving Education for AllDDC classification:
  • 372.967
LOC classification:
  • LA1502 -- .A245 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- figures -- Tables -- Foreword: Citizens Acting to Improve Learning -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Africa: The Dilemmas of Access, Equality, and Quality -- Chapter 2. Universal Primary Education and the Challenge of Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 3. Measuring Learning Outcomes: Lessons from the Uwezo Experience -- Chapter 4. The Challenge of Access, Quality, and Equity: Education in Kenya, 1963 to 2015 -- Chapter 5. Schooling and Learning in Tanzania: Trends and Issues in Basic Education -- Chapter 6. Tracing Universal Primary Education in Uganda since Independence (1962-2014) -- Chapter 7. Dilemmas of Education for All in Mali: An Evaluation of Learning Outcomes -- Chapter 8. The Long Way from Elitism to Massification: What Is the Place of Good-Quality Learning in the Senegalese School? -- Chapter 9. Conclusion. Questioning the UPE Paradigm, Reframing the UPE Strategy -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: Using the system-wide educational reform implementation model, this book interrogates the ramifications of the Education for All movement on quality, equity, and learning outcomes in six African nations: Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It opens the possibilities for new approaches to Education for All in the context of constrained resources, unstable political climates, and the agency of local communities.
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Intro -- Contents -- figures -- Tables -- Foreword: Citizens Acting to Improve Learning -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Africa: The Dilemmas of Access, Equality, and Quality -- Chapter 2. Universal Primary Education and the Challenge of Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 3. Measuring Learning Outcomes: Lessons from the Uwezo Experience -- Chapter 4. The Challenge of Access, Quality, and Equity: Education in Kenya, 1963 to 2015 -- Chapter 5. Schooling and Learning in Tanzania: Trends and Issues in Basic Education -- Chapter 6. Tracing Universal Primary Education in Uganda since Independence (1962-2014) -- Chapter 7. Dilemmas of Education for All in Mali: An Evaluation of Learning Outcomes -- Chapter 8. The Long Way from Elitism to Massification: What Is the Place of Good-Quality Learning in the Senegalese School? -- Chapter 9. Conclusion. Questioning the UPE Paradigm, Reframing the UPE Strategy -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Using the system-wide educational reform implementation model, this book interrogates the ramifications of the Education for All movement on quality, equity, and learning outcomes in six African nations: Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It opens the possibilities for new approaches to Education for All in the context of constrained resources, unstable political climates, and the agency of local communities.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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