Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers: Achieving Education for All

by Daniel; John

• ISBN13: 9780415872058
• ISBN10: 0415872057
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-02-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The latest addition to The Open and Flexible Learning Series addresses the challenges created by the successes and the failures of the universal primary education campaign. It advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today's rapidly growing youth population.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. xii
Series Editor's Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Glossary of Acronyms	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Education for All-Unfinished Business	p. 1
Success and Failure	p. 1
Education for All-Why?	p. 3
The Long Saga of Striving for EFA	p. 7
EFA: The Challenges Ahead	p. 15
Scaling up Secondary Schooling	p. 20
Scaling up Teacher Education	p. 21
Summary	p. 23
Seeking a Silver Bullet	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
Expanding Public Schooling	p. 26
Private Schools: A Poor Choice or the Choice of the Poor?	p. 29
Children and Computers: What Works?	p. 32
Summary	p. 43
Technology Is the Answer-What Is the Question?	p. 45
Technology and EFA	p. 45
Attitudes to Technology: Irrational Exuberance or Instinctive Scepticism?	p. 46
What Is Technology?	p. 46
Technology-Based Innovations in Conventional Schooling	p. 48
The Imperative of Scale	p. 49
Defining Technology	p. 50
Two Modes of Learning	p. 53
Designing Learning Systems to Operate at Scale	p. 57
The Economy of Learning Systems	p. 60
Summary	p. 63
Open Schools and Mega-Schools	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
What Are Open Schools and Mega-Schools?	p. 66
Parallels with Higher Education	p. 68
Open Schools: Means and Ends	p. 69
Which Model: Complementary, Alternative or Integrative?	p. 70
The Collaborative Creation of Learning Materials	p. 74
Open Schooling to Strengthen the Conventional Schooling System	p. 76
Open Schools as Catalysts for Reform	p. 78
Computing and Children: Can Open Schools Help?	p. 79
The Governance of Open Schools	p. 80
Summary	p. 81
Teacher Education at Scale	p. 83
Introduction	p. 83
Teacher Supply and Retention	p. 85
Teacher Recruitment and Education	p. 87
Summary	p. 95
Strategies for Success	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
Scale	p. 98
Synergy	p. 99
Systems	p. 101
Strategies	p. 102
How Can the International Community Help?	p. 104
Summary	p. 105
Conclusions	p. 105
Profiles-Selected Open Schools and Mega-Schools	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Home Schooling in North America	p. 107
Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance (CNED), France (Mega-School)	p. 110
Telesecundaria, Mexico (Mega-School)	p. 113
National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), India (Mega-School)	p. 116
SLTP Terbuka (Open Junior Secondary School), Indonesia (Mega-School)	p. 122
Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning (BOCODOL)	p. 125
Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) (Mega-School)	p. 129
Open College, Papua New Guinea (Mega-School)	p. 134
Contact North, Ontario, Canada	p. 138
Programmes and Mechanisms for Expanding Teacher Supply	p. 141
Introduction	p. 141
Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance (CNED), France	p. 141
PERMAMA (Perfectionnement des Maîtres en Mathématiques), Québec, Canada	p. 146
National Teachers' Institute (NTI), Kaduna, Nigeria	p. 149
Allama Iqbal Open University, Pakistan	p. 153
The UK Open University (UKOU)	p. 155
The Open University Malaysia (OUM)	p. 160
CalStateTEACH, California, USA	p. 163
TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa)	p. 165
Protocol for the Recruitment of Commonwealth Teachers	p. 168
Bibliography	p. 171
Subject Index	p. 180
Name Index	p. 184
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