Education for all and multigrade teaching : challenges and opportunities /

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Imprint:Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, c2006.
Description:1 online resource (xix, 362 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8878140
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Other authors / contributors:Little, Angela.
ISBN:9781402045912
1402045913
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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. This book is based on original research on challenges and opportunities in Colombia, England, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Peru, Caicos Islands, and Vietnam.
Other form:Print version: Education for all and multigrade teaching. Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, c2006 1402045905 9781402045905
Table of Contents:
  • Education for all: multigrade realities and histories; Learning opportunities for all: pedagogy in multigrade and monograde classrooms in the Turks and Caicos Islands; A multigrade approach to literacy in the Amazon, Peru: school and community perspectives; Multigrade teaching in London, England; Multigrade teachers and their training in rural Nepal; Prepared for diversity? Teacher education for lower primary classes in Malawi; Adapting the primary mathematics curriculum to the multigrade classroom in rural Sri Lanka; Improving the quality of health education in multigrade schools in Vietnam.