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What Counts as the Mixed Method of Reading Instruction in Guinea? Fractures in the Global Culture of Modern Schooling.
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Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M. – 2000
This paper examines a case of educational innovation--the introduction of new methods for teaching reading in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa--as a reality check on the appealing but sweeping theory of John Meyer and his colleagues about the diffusion of educational ideals. The paper focuses on Guinea's official adoption of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Innovation