| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 202 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Emerald professional learning networks series
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Emerald professional learning networks series.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Editors Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Author Biographies -- Foreword -- Note on Practitioners' Manual -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction and Background -- Introduction -- The Colonial Legacy (Or the Challenge of History) -- Education and School Improvement in Sierra Leone -- Pedagogy and Professional Learning Networks -- Priorities for School Improvement in Sierra Leone -- EducAid -- Conclusions -- 2: Planning School Improvement and the Role of PLNs -- Introduction |
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Democratic Education -- Implications for Planning CPDL -- School Improvement and the Management of Change -- Why CPDL? -- Centrality of PLNs -- Structure and Content -- Part 1. Engagement Meeting. -- Part 2. Follow-up Support for Implementation in the Following School Year -- Conclusions -- 3: Evaluation -- Introduction -- Self-evaluation or Independent Evaluation? -- Impact Data: 1. Design for Assessing Impact -- Impact Data: 2. Scope and Instruments -- Process Data -- Preparation of the EducAid Team for Data Collection -- Ethical Questions Arising in Delivery of CPDL and the Evaluation |
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Conclusions -- 4: Results: 1. Impact Evaluation -- Introduction -- Attendance -- Literacy -- Conclusions -- 5: Results: 2. Process Evaluation -- Introduction: Overview of Data -- Shared Experience and Professional Learning: First Steps towards PLNs and PLCs -- Relations with the SMC and Local Branch of the Ministry of Education -- Attendance -- Respectful Relationships and Behaviour -- Curriculum and Pedagogy -- The Sierra Leonean Training Team -- Conclusions: Laying the Foundation for PLNs -- 6: Conclusions -- Introduction: A Pragmatic Starting Point |
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Overview of Achievements and Limitations: 1. Design and Delivery of CPDL -- Overview of Achievements and Limitations: 2. Results -- Progress in Establishing PLNs and PLCs -- Conclusions: Reasons for Optimism? -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index |
| Summary |
Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa describes the planning, delivery and evaluation of an improvement programme by EducAid. The evaluation showed that children in schools, whose teachers had taken part in the programme, made more progress in literacy, attendance and behaviour than children in control schools. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Teachers -- Training of -- Sierra Leone.
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School improvement programs -- Sierra Leone.
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Educational strategies & policy. |
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Education, Professional Development. |
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School improvement programs. |
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Teachers -- Training of. |
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Sierra Leone. |
| Added Author |
Galloway, David, 1942- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mason, Miriam Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited,c2021 9781801175050 |
| ISBN |
9781801175029 |
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1801175020 |
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1801175055 |
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9781801175050 |
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1801175047 |
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9781801175043 (electronic bk.) |
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