Effective Schools in Developing Countries: 15 (The Stanford series on education & public policy) - Hardcover

 
9780750701730: Effective Schools in Developing Countries: 15 (The Stanford series on education & public policy)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0750701730 ISBN 13: 9780750701730
Publisher: Falmer Press Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Eight case studies of initiatives to improve schools for rural or disadvantaged children are provided: the New School Programme in Columbia, the Democratic School Model (CIEP) in Brazil, a plantation school in Sri Lanka, the local improvement efforts in Thailand, the education programme for futal development in Nepal, the school reform in Ghana, strategies for providing education in Burundi and the Accelerated Schools in United States. The studies found that effective schools share several common features with respect to provision of necessary inputs, existence of facilitating conditions and the will to change. The book is unique in its focus on developing countries and good schools for impoverished children. It is aimed at MEd, postgraduate education students and lectures in international, comparative education. Developmental workers in NGOs, teachers in developing countries.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Marlaine E. Lockheed is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development. She served as director for education, ad interim, for the World Bank from 2000 to 2001, and managed units responsible for education strategy and lending in the Middle East and North Africa.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Falmer Press Ltd
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0750701730
ISBN 13 
9780750701730
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
188
Editor
Levin Henry M., Lockheed Marlaine E.