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Teaching and Learning in Context

Why Pedagogical Reforms Fail in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Richard Tabulawa

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Teaching and Learning in Context

Why Pedagogical Reforms Fail in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Richard Tabulawa

Since the 1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented attempts at reforming teacher and student classroom practices, with a learner-centred pedagogy regarded as an effective antidote to the prevalence of teacher-centred didactic classroom practices. Attempts at reform have been going on all over the continent. In fact, learner-centred pedagogy has been described as one of the most pervasive educational ideas in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Research has revealed that the major attempts have largely failed mainly because teachers have not been able to adopt instructional innovations to technical problems. This failure is also related to lack of resources, and poor teacher training programmes which lead to poor teacher quality, among others. This book attempts to explain why pedagogical change has not occurred in spite of the much energy and resources that have been committed to such reforms.The book also takes us inside what the author calls 'the socio-cultural world of African classrooms' to help us understand the reasons teachers dominate classroom life and rely disproportionately on didactic methods of teaching. Its conceptual analyses capture the best of both the sociology and the anthropology of education in contexts of poverty, as well as the politics of education.The book concludes that a socio-cultural approach should be the basis for developing culturally responsive indigenous pedagogies, though these may or may not turn out to be in any way akin to constructivist learner-centred pedagogies.

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Globalisation and Education Policy Reform in Botswana

By: Richard Tabulawa

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Globalisation and Education Policy Reform in Botswana

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This book uses the global–local dialect approach to explicate education policy reform in Botswana and interrogates the practical effects of the various education policies on curriculum, pedagogy and governance of the Botswana General Education system. Considering the effect of three reform policies since Botswana’s Independence in 1966, the book evaluates the performance of each of the policies and examines their consequences in terms of the interplay of global forces and domestic pressures. The result of this interplay has been an education landscape that, while reflecting globally circulating education discourses, markedly differs from those same discourses. The book argues that the State in Botswana has appropriated education policy to legitimate itself in times of crisis and that each policy has improved access to general education but, collectively, have failed to improve its quality, making suggestions for how this can be improved in the future. As the first book of its kind to delve into education in Botswana from a single-authored critical lens, the book will be a highly relevant reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students of African education, comparative education, education policy and curriculum studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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Teaching and Learning in Context

Why Pedagogical Reforms Fail in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Richard Tabulawa

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Why Pedagogical Reforms Fail in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Richard Tabulawa

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Teaching and Learning in Context

Teaching and Learning in Context

Globalisation and Education Policy Reform in Botswana

Globalisation and Education Policy Reform in Botswana

Teaching and Learning in Context

Teaching and Learning in Context

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