Primary education in crisis: Brahm Fleisch. why South African schoolchildren underachieve in reading and mathematics
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TextPublication details: Cape Town: Juta; 2008. Description: xiv, 162 pages Colour illustrations: 25 cmISBN: 9780702 177071Subject(s): FLEISCH, Brahm Cape Town, 2008 2008 | Juta | Critical world issues | Kabbala | Reading (Primary) | South Africa | Education | Achievement | South Africa (Pretoria) | Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- South AfricaGenre/Form: Adult Non-Fiction DDC classification: 372.968 FLEI Summary: Primary education in crisis pulls together the wealth of research on health, poverty, resources, language and teaching as factors in academic achievement in reading, writing and mathematics. At the centre of the book is an analysis of the published studies that systematically document what teachers teach and fail to teach, and why it is that teaching is at the heart of the crisis in primary education. The author suggests that there are no quick fixes, but only hard choices and that, for reform to succeed, it must be evidence-based.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.
Primary education in crisis pulls together the wealth of research on health, poverty, resources, language and teaching as factors in academic achievement in reading, writing and mathematics. At the centre of the book is an analysis of the published studies that systematically document what teachers teach and fail to teach, and why it is that teaching is at the heart of the crisis in primary education. The author suggests that there are no quick fixes, but only hard choices and that, for reform to succeed, it must be evidence-based.
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