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Community Schools in Africa
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2007; US$ 64.99Draws on Save the Children's experience with community-based schooling in four countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, and Uganda. This book fills a big gap in the education literature and is particularly timely, given the emphasis on decentralization and community involvement in education. more...
Language, Literacy, and Learning in Primary Schools
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 9.99Language, Literacy, and Learning in Primary Schools is a synthesis of the findings arising from four years of policy research and development in Nigeria's primary schools that focused on the gap between what teachers should know and be able to do, and the realities of teaching and learning in classrooms. It begins by critically examining the outcomes... more...
Indian Higher Education
SAGE India 2009; US$ 39.95India is in the throes of great developments in the field of higher education. This book identifies the needs and gaps in this sector and provides suggestions for improvement based on the lessons learnt from the experiences of other countries. It facilitates a clear and holistic understanding of the sectors complex nature and breaks several myths... more...
Education and Training for Development in East Asia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 195.00The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with... more...
Developing the Workforce, Shaping the Future
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 14.99With challenges similar to those faced by a number of low income countries, Madagascar faces critical policy choices with respect to post-basic education. Enrolment ratios in senior secondary education and tertiary education are 10 percent and 3 percent, respectively, among the lowest in the world. Critical skill shortages and pervasive inequities... more...
Social Science Learning in Schools
SAGE India 2010; US$ 29.95Social Science Learning in Schools: Perspective and Challenges locates the teaching and learning of social science within the larger perspective and aims of education. It emphasizes the need to take the teaching of social science beyond the confines of contemporary ideological debates, into the realm of pedagogical theory. It presents critical perspectives... more...
China?s Christian Colleges
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 25.95A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work. more...
Higher Education Management and Operational Research
Springer 2013; US$ 69.95Higher Education in the UK operates in a rapidly changing and highly complex environment. Universities need to adapt quickly to this environment and managers must begin to explore new angles and approaches in addressing the challenges they are now facing. This book offers a tool box of metaphors and associative Operational Research (OR)... more...
Higher Education in Asia/Pacific
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This volume provides a framework to examine these challenges in the region and beyond. more...
Whose Education For All?
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 145.00Since 1990, when the phrase "education for all" was first coined at the World Bank conference in Jomtien, Thailand, a battle has raged over its meaning and its impact on education in Africa. In this thought-provoking new volume, Dr. Brock-Utne argues that "education for all" really means "Western primary schooling for some, and none for others." Her... more...









