Effects of government mandates and policies on public education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East

"As the demand for education at all levels has increased, so have the models of meeting these increased demands for education. As in many other parts of the world, public education has expanded to serve large populations across the regions of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Many nat...

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Main Authors Sunal, Cynthia S. (Author), Odebiyi, Oluseyi Matthew (Author), Mutua, Kagendo, 1966- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc, 2022.
SeriesResearch on Education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806602841
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-928-8
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 304 pages) : illustrations, map

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Table of Contents:
  • How have government policies and mandates affected public education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the middle east?
  • How learners gained and then lost: The importance of sustaining government policies
  • Examining the impact of the free senior high school policy in Ghana
  • The role of inclusive education in addressing hiv and aids: Challenges and successes
  • Gaps in English teacher preparation and English-only curriculum implementation in malawi schools
  • Dominant English-centered language policies in education marginalize Ghanaian languages and literacies
  • Mandating educational technology use without preparation: The case of Kenyan pre-service teacher
  • Nigerian teachers' perceptions of using multiple representations to solve mathematics problems
  • Exploring Ghanaian primary teachers' readiness for national curricula and pedagogical reform
  • Were five years wasted? Exploring rural education in trinidad and tobago
  • Distilling public secondary education for at-risk youth in trinidad and tobago
  • School consolidation policy in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • History revised: Political Islam and education in iran
  • Human rights and women with disabilities in the state of qatar
  • Epilogue.