Education for All And Multigrade Teaching

by Little, Angela W.

• ISBN13: 9781402045905
• ISBN10: 1402045905
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-12
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Multigrade teaching poses a challenge to learning. Millions of learners worldwide are taught by teachers who, at any one time, are responsible for two or more school grades/years. These are the invisible multigrade teachers who struggle to provide learning opportunities for all within curriculum and teacher education systems designed for monograded classes. In many countries multigraded classes arise out of necessity and are regarded as second class education. Yet in some parts of the world learning and teaching in multigraded settings is embraced as the pedagogy of choice, offering equivalent, and sometimes superior, learning opportunities. Multigrade teaching provides an opportunity for improved learning. This book is based on original research on challenges and opportunities in Colombia, England, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Peru, Turks and Caicos Islands and Vietnam. Its purpose is to raise awareness among educational policymakers and practitioners worldwide of the realities of multigrade classes in the context of Education for All, and to explore the implications for teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers and educational planners.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
List of Contributors	xi
List of Abbreviations	xv
List of Plates	xix
CHAPTER 1 Education for all: multigrade realities and histories
ANGELA W. LITTLE	1	(26)
CHAPTER 2 Learning opportunities for all: pedagogy in multigrade and monograde classrooms in the Turks and Caicos Islands
CHRIS BERRY	27	(20)
CHAPTER 3 A multigrade approach to literacy in the Amazon, Peru: school and community perspectives
PATRICIA AMES	47	(20)
CHAPTER 4 Multigrade teaching in London, England
CHRIS BERRY AND ANGELA W. LITTLE	67	(20)
CHAPTER 5 Multigrade teachers and their training in rural Nepal
TAKAKO SUZUKI	87	(16)
CHAPTER 6 Prepared for diversity? Teacher education for lower primary classes in Malawi
ALISON CROFT	103	(24)
CHAPTER 7 Adapting the primary mathematics curriculum to the multigrade classroom in rural Sri Lanka
MANJULA VITHANAPATHIRANA	127	(28)
CHAPTER 8 Improving the quality of health education in multigrade schools in Vietnam
T. SON VU AND PAT PRIDMORE	155	(14)
CHAPTER 9 Adapting the curriculum for teaching health in multigrade classes in Vietnam
PAT PRIDMORE WITH VU SON	169	(24)
CHAPTER 10 EFA for pastoralists in North Sudan: a mobile multigrade model of schooling
SHEILA AIKMAN AND HANAN EL HAJ	193	(22)
CHAPTER 11 Extending basic education to out-of-school children in Northern Ghana: what can multigrade schooling teach us?
ALBERT KWAME AKYEAMPONG	215	(24)
CHAPTER 12 Costs and finance of multigrade strategies for learning: how do the books balance?
KEITH M. LEWIN	239	(26)
CHAPTER 13 Escuela nueva's impact on the peaceful social interaction of children in Colombia
CLEMENTE FORERO-PINEDA, DANIEL ESCOBAR-RODRIGUEZ AND DANIELKEN MOLINA	265	(35)
CHAPTER 14 Multigrade lessons for EFA: a synthesis
ANGELA W. LITTLE	300	(49)
Plates	349	(10)
INDEX	359