Primary School Teacher Deployment: A Comparative Study - Softcover

9780850928839: Primary School Teacher Deployment: A Comparative Study

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850928834 ISBN 13: 9780850928839

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008

Ensuring education for all at the primary school level is not just a matter of recruiting enough teachers: they must be deployed effectively across the education system. Even countries with sufficient total numbers of teachers may have shortages in some areas, or be unsuccessful in recruiting female teachers, with consequences for the participation rate of girls in schools.

Primary School Teacher Deployment presents four detailed studies from countries with low net educational enrollment levels: Nigeria, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea and Pakistan. The book demonstrates the effects of inequitable teacher deployment and addresses these problems at the country level. The contributors make overall recommendations on deployment policies and practices in a number of areas to assist educational planners to achieve Education for All goals, particularly with regard to female teachers, but also dealing with training and recruitment, in-service training, teacher incentives, teacher utilization, and effective decentralization.

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About the Author:

Fatimah Kelleher is Education Programme Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London.

Review:

'a must read for African educational scholars, administrators and all stakeholders in African educational enterprise.' The African Symposium: An Online Journal of the African Educational Research Network, Volume 9, No.1 'a valuable examination of the inequalities present in the school systems of four Commonwealth countries and will prove interesting to anyone interested in educational policy, social inequality and professional development. It is easy to engage with, strongly underpinned statistically, and insightful as to its recommendations.' ESCalate, http://escalate.ac.uk/5200 'The book is admirable, particularly in the way in which it renders rather complex statistical data in an accessible and comprehensible form, which makes the book 'user-friendly', even for those who may not be involved with schooling or the EFA. It is concisely written and very informative. A definite 'must read' for those immersed in the field of education and EFA and MDGs.' Perspectives in Education, Volume 28(1), March 2010

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