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| De Grauwe, Anton | 1 |
| Maruatona, Tonic | 1 |
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| Information Analyses | 3 |
| Books | 1 |
| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
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| Higher Education | 1 |
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Peer reviewedMaruatona, Tonic – Adult Basic Education, 2002
The effectiveness of adult literacy education in Botswana is limited by centralization, lack of teacher and learner input, and the national literacy campaign's conventional rather than transformative approach. A critical approach that involves learners in planning, uses native languages, and enables teachers to select materials can better achieve…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Centralization, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries
De Grauwe, Anton – 2001
Through narration and with the aid of 27 tables and 11 figures, this book reports on the school supervision system in four African countries. (The research is part of a larger series of studies sponsored by UNESCO and the International Institute for Educational Planning.) The countries studied were Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. The…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Direct linkCommonwealth of Learning, 2004
Both of these "Surveys of policy and practice" were conducted on behalf of COL by the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) as part of COL's partnership agreement with the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) Working Group on Distance Education and Open Learning. The first report identifies…
Descriptors: Open Education, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Quality
