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Estrategias y Técnicas Especializadas de Enseñanza para Profesores Universitarios

Donald Grieve

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780940017498
Publication Date: Dec 2020
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Estratégias e Técnicas de Ensino Especializadas para Professores Universitários

Donald Grieve

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780940017504
Publication Date: Dec 2020
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The Rebirth of Education

Lant Pritchett

Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. The first draws on Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's book about the difference between centralized and decentralized organizations, The Starfish and the Spider. Schools systems tend be centralized and suffer from the limitations inherent in top-down designs. The second metaphor is the concept of isomorphic mimicry. Pritchett argues that many developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations— much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one.Pritchett argues that the solution is to allow functional systems to evolve locally out of an environment pressured for success. Such an ecosystem needs to be open to variety and experimentation, locally operated, and flexibly financed. The only main cost is ceding control; the reward would be the rebirth of education suited for today's world.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781933286778
Publication Date: Oct 2013
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Educators in Exile

Barry Sesnan

This study addresses a gap in the literature on the role and status of teachers in emergencies. Through field research from Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, it identifies issues facing refugee teachers and makes recommendations on how policy can address their needs, and thus improve access to education to populations affected by an emergency.

Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781849290913
Publication Date: Feb 2013
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