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Fournir des manuels scolaires à tous les enfants d'Afrique subsaharienne

Stratégies de lutte contre leur cherté et leur faible disponibilité

By: Birger Fredriksen,Sukhdeep Brar

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Fournir des manuels scolaires à tous les enfants d'Afrique subsaharienne

Stratégies de lutte contre leur cherté et leur faible disponibilité

By: Birger Fredriksen,Sukhdeep Brar

Alors même que les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne poursuivent leurs efforts pour améliorer les acquis scolaires de leurs enfants en réformant leur système éducatif, l’accessibilité financière et la disponibilité des manuels continuent de poser de véritables défis. Mais, malgré l’importance du soutien technique et du financement apportés par les partenaires, dont la Banque mondiale, l’accessibilité financière et la disponibilité des manuels restent un objectif difficile à atteindre dans la majorité des pays, tant pour les enseignants que pour les élèves. La plupart des pays africains sont confrontés à de faibles acquis scolaires et de forts taux d’abandon. Deux tiers seulement des enfants scolarisés achèvent leurs études et environ la moitié d’entre eux possèdent des compétences de base en calcul et en lecture. Les manuels scolaires sont généralement considérés comme un moyen indispensable et économique d’améliorer la qualité de l’apprentissage. Fournir des manuels scolaires à tous les enfants d’Afrique subsaharienne : stratégies de lutte contre leur cherté et leur faible disponibilité propose des mesures susceptibles de réduire les coûts des manuels et d’augmenter leur disponibilité. Le présent ouvrage examine en détail les coûts et les obstacles financiers entravant la disponibilité des manuels dans les écoles d’une grande partie de la région, ainsi que les mesures adoptées avec succès dans d’autres pays. Il fournit également une évaluation rigoureuse des avantages et inconvénients des matériels pédagogiques numériques et appelle à la prudence quant à l’idée qu’ils peuvent immédiatement remplacer les manuels imprimés. Conçu pour susciter un débat entre responsables de l’action publique, partenaires de développement et autres parties prenantes d’Afrique, Fournir des manuels scolaires à tous les enfants d’Afrique subsaharienne : stratégies de lutte contre leur cherté et leur faible disponibilité fournit des informations et une analyse à la fois pratiques et pertinentes.

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World Bank Publications

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146480687X

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9781464806872

Getting Textbooks to Every Child in Sub-Saharan Africa

Strategies for Addressing the High Cost and Low Availability Problem

By: Birger Fredriksen,Sukhdeep Brar

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Getting Textbooks to Every Child in Sub-Saharan Africa

Strategies for Addressing the High Cost and Low Availability Problem

By: Birger Fredriksen,Sukhdeep Brar

Textbooks play a key role in enhancing the quality of learning, especially in the context of low-income Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries characterized by large class-size, poorly motivated and inadequately trained teachers, and short effective school years. There are also high rates of illiteracy among parents and few reading materials at home for the student to bank on. Despite extensive investments by governments, the World Bank and other development partners, the majority of students in primary and secondary schools in SSA still lack the benefit of access to textbooks and the key reason for this shortage is affordability: textbooks are generally much more costly in SSA than in other developing regions. The need to increase access to key learning resources is of particular urgency because most African countries experience low learning outcomes which in part contributes to a high drop-out rate. Only two-thirds of those who enter school reach the final grade and only about half of these master basic numeracy and literacy skills. And although quality improvement depends on many factors inside and outside the school, there is wide agreement that availability of textbooks is both an indispensable and a cost-effective way of improving the quality of the learning process. A recent World Bank study examined the actual costs of textbooks, the scope for cost reduction, the portion of a national budget countries allocate to teaching and learning materials (TLMs) and hurdles in the way of making textbooks available to student. Some interesting findings from the study - - The availability of affordable textbooks to all students could be dramatically improved by devoting an estimated 3 to 4 percent of the primary education budget and 6 to 7 percent of the secondary education budget - The production process †“ methods, copyright, length of print runs, effective procurement practices †“ rather than the production costs should be the target of cost saving strategies - The increased integration of ICTs into education in SSA can provide important opportunities for promoting availability of electronic TLMs but electronic TLMs are not a substitute for printed TLMs including textbooks

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World Bank Publications

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1464805415

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9781464805417

Toward a Better Future

Education and Training for Economic Development in Singapore since 1965

By: Fredriksen Birger,Sing Kong Lee,Chor Boon Goh

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Toward a Better Future

Education and Training for Economic Development in Singapore since 1965

By: Fredriksen Birger,Sing Kong Lee,Chor Boon Goh

Toward a Better Future' provides a comprehensive analysis of education development in Singapore since 1965, giving particular attention to the strategic management that has enabled Singapore to transform its education and training system from one similar to that of many Sub-Saharan African countries four decades ago into one of the world's best-performing systems. It is one of a pair of concurrently-published books presenting materials originally developed for a 2006 study tour to Singapore and Vietnam for senior education officials from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, and Mozambique. The second book, 'An African Exploration of the East Asian Education Experience', presents five country studies, as well as regional, comparative analyses highlighting insights gained during the study tour and putting them in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Together, the two books aim to foster knowledge exchange between Sub-Saharan African and East Asian countries on good practices in the design and implementation of education policies and programs. By facilitating the cross-country fertilization of ideas between two regions with relatively limited contact in the past, these books fi ll a clear gap in the current literature on development practice in education.

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0821373765

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9780821373767

Paul

The Pagans' Apostle

By: Paula Fredriksen

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Paul

The Pagans' Apostle

By: Paula Fredriksen

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: THE MESSAGE AND THE MESSENGER -- ONE: ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS -- Beginnings -- God and Cosmos -- God and Humanity -- God and Israel -- Kingdom and Exile -- David's House, and God's -- Prophecy and Promise -- The Expectation of Redemption -- TWO: FATHERLAND AND MOTHER CITY -- Jews in Pagan Places -- Pagans in Jewish Places -- The Temple -- The Synagogue -- THREE: PAUL: MISSION AND PERSECUTION -- Who Was Paul, and How Do We Know? -- Jews, Born and Made -- Circumcising Missions? -- Eschatological Gentiles -- Witness, Resistance, and "Persecution"--FOUR: PAUL AND THE LAW -- The Gospel and Gentile Circumcision -- The "Law-Free" Mission and the "Law-Free" Apostle? -- Gods and the One God -- Ethnic Distinctions -- The Law, the Ethnē, and "Justification by Faith" -- The Law's Curse -- FIVE: CHRIST AND THE KINGDOM -- Christ, the Son of David, Part 1: The Eschaton -- Christ, the Son of David, Part 2: Romans -- Intermezzo: The Turning of the Nations -- Lineage/Huiothesia -- Separation/Hagiasmos -- The Choral Symphony: Paul's Letter to the Romans -- Romans 2-7: Problems with Gentile Judaizing -- Romans 9-11: Israel and the Nations -- POSTSCRIPT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- INDEXES -- Names and Places -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Ancient Documents and Authors -- Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T

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Yale University Press

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0300225881

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9780300225884

When Christians Were Jews

The First Generation

By: Paula Fredriksen

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When Christians Were Jews

The First Generation

By: Paula Fredriksen

A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”—they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.

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0300240740

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9780300240740

Augustine and the Jews

A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism

By: Paula Fredriksen

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Augustine and the Jews

A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism

By: Paula Fredriksen

Now in paperback with a new postscript, this updated edition of Paula Fredriksen’s critically acclaimed Augustine and the Jews traces the social and intellectual forces that led to the development of Christian anti-Judaism and shows how and why Augustine challenged this tradition. Drawing us into the life, times, and thought of Augustine of Hippo (396–430), Fredriksen focuses on the period of astounding creativity that led to his new understanding of Paul and to his great classic, The Confessions. She shows how Augustine’s struggle to read the Bible led him to a new theological vision, one that countered the anti-Judaism not only of his Manichaean opponents but also of his own church. The Christian Empire, Augustine held, was right to ban paganism and to coerce heretics. But the source of ancient Jewish scripture and current Jewish practice, he argued, was the very same as that of the New Testament and of the church—namely, God himself. Accordingly, he urged, Jews were to be left alone. Conceived as a vividly original way to defend Christian ideas about Jesus and about the Old Testament, Augustine’s theological innovation survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and it ultimately served to protect Jewish lives against the brutality of medieval crusades. Augustine and the Jews sheds new light on the origins of Christian anti-Semitism and, through Augustine, opens a path toward better understanding between two of the world’s great religions.

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0300172508

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9780300172508

From Jesus to Christ

The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (Second Edition)

By: Paula Fredriksen

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From Jesus to Christ

The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (Second Edition)

By: Paula Fredriksen

Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

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0300164106

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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity

By: Paula Fredriksen

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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity

By: Paula Fredriksen

Paula Fredriksen, renowned historian and author of From Christ to Jesus, begins this inquiry into the historic Jesus with a fact that may be the only undisputed thing we know about him: his crucifixion. Rome reserved this means of execution particularly for political insurrectionists; and the Roman charge posted at the head of the cross indicted Jesus for claiming to be King of the Jews. To reconstruct the Jesus who provoked this punishment, Fredriksen takes us into the religious worlds, Jewish and pagan, of Mediterranean antiquity, through the labyrinth of Galilean and Judean politics, and on into the ancient narratives of Paul's letters, the gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Josephus' histories. The result is a profound contribution both to our understanding of the social and religious contexts within which Jesus of Nazareth moved, and to our appreciation of the mission and message that ended in the proclamation of Jesus as Messiah.

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0307826570

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Fournir des manuels scolaires à tous les enfants d'Afrique subsaharienne

Fournir des manuels scolaires à tous les enfants d'Afrique subsaharienne

Getting Textbooks to Every Child in Sub-Saharan Africa

Getting Textbooks to Every Child in Sub-Saharan Africa

Toward a Better Future

Toward a Better Future

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Paul

When Christians Were Jews

When Christians Were Jews

Augustine and the Jews

Augustine and the Jews

From Jesus to Christ

From Jesus to Christ

Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

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