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Community education in the Third World
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ISBN: 0415042097 Year: 1992 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Developing and underdeveloping in education
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ISBN: 9781210877 Year: 1980 Publisher: Ibadan, Nigeria Ibadan University Pub. House

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Language teaching projects for the Third World
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ISBN: 0080303420 9780080303420 Year: 1983 Volume: 116 Publisher: Oxford Pergamon Press


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Educational growth in developing countries : an empirical analysis
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ISBN: 902372805X 9789023728054 Year: 1974 Volume: 5 Publisher: Rotterdam University press

The social dimensions of development : social policy and planning in the Third World
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ISBN: 0471101931 0471101842 9780471101932 Year: 1982 Publisher: Chichester John Wiley & Sons Limited

The Excluded past : archaeology in education /edited by Peter Stone, Robert MacKenzie
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ISBN: 0044450192 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Boston Unwin Hyman


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Community financing of education : issues and policy implications in less developed countries
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ISBN: 0080358586 1483297667 Year: 1988 Volume: vol 5 Publisher: Oxford Tokyo New York Pergamon Press


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The progressive education fallacy in developing countries : in favour of formalism
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ISBN: 9400798660 9400718500 9400718519 Year: 2011 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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This highly controversial book challenges half a century of conventional educational wisdom. The Progressive Education Fallacy in Developing Countries: In Favour of Formalism argues that progressive teacher education and curriculum reforms in developing countries are wrong in principle and widespread failures in practice. The book is essential reading for academics, aid and educational professionals, and for overseas students of education. In a methodologically elegant contribution to the theory, methodology and practice of education in developing countries, 12 chapters address the merits of formalism and the risks associated with what Gerard Guthrie identifies as the Progressive Education Fallacy. The Fallacy, that developing the enquiring mind needs enquiry teaching methods in schools, has lead to many inappropriate attempts at educational transfer. Progressive assumptions about the classroom have rarely been debated or tested experimentally in non-Western, especially non-Anglophone, cultures. School effectiveness research too has failed to examine adequately classroom processes and their cultural contexts. A formal analysis of ideas inherent in the Fallacy uses C.E. Beeby’s stages model as an influential example of the progressive position. Progressive claims are refuted using the case of failed curriculum reforms in Papua New Guinea and an analysis of the unlikelihood of the adoption of progressive teaching in Confucian-tradition China. Widespread evidence from Africa and Asia also shows that progressive education reforms have failed in countries with pedagogic paradigms founded in revelatory epistemologies. Old-fashioned though formalism may be in some Western countries, classroom change in the developing world does not necessarily require progressive methods, but can focus on upgrading formalism. "Gerard Guthrie makes a significant , if challenging and controversial, contribution to the international literature on education and development" Michael Crossley, University of Bristol, UK.


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Investing in young children : an early childhood development guide for policy dialogue and project preparation
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ISBN: 0821385267 9786612906237 0821385283 1282906232 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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The World Bank created this Early Child Development (ECD) Guide in response to a growing demand from Task Team Leaders (TTLs) for advice and support to facilitate the policy dialogue on the topic of ECD and to help policy makers make and implement relevant choices on how to best invest in ECD in the context of their country's economy and national priorities. This Guide fills a gap in the literature by (i) distilling existing information in a user-friendly format, (ii) providing practical information on topics that have recently become particularly relevant in ECD (e.g., measuring child develop

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