TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helmore,Kristin
AU  - Glassman,Deborah
AU  - Naidoo,Jordan
AU  - Wood,Fred
AU  - O'Gara,Chloe
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Community Schools in Africa: Reaching the Unreached 
SN  - 9780387451077
U1  - 379 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
KW  - EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND POLITICS
KW  - INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
KW  - CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
N1  - Community Schools: The Solution to Local Needs -- Mali, 1992-2003: The First Experiment -- Malawi, 1994-2003: Training on a National Scale -- Ethiopia, 1992-2001: Helping Communities Fill the Education Gap -- Uganda, 1999-2005: Transferring to Government Control -- USAID and Community Schools in Africa: The Vision, the Strategy, the Commitment -- Supply-Side Education: Africa's Home-grown Schools -- What's Next for Community Schools?
N2  - Over the past decade, community schools similar to those supported by Save the Children have been established in many developing countries, and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. As large numbers of children attend schools started and managed by their own communities and/or by nongovernmental organizations, questions have come up about the impact of such schools at large scale: "Can village-based or community schools have a national impact on access to education, spur improved long-term development strategies and education policy, or achieve or influence Education for All? This book explores these and related questions, drawing on Save the Children's experience with community-based schooling in four countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, and Uganda. The literature on community schools in Africa tends to be sparse, repetitive and highly descriptive with little or no sustained critique of practice. This book fills a substantial gap in the education literature and is particularly timely, given the current emphasis on decentralization and community involvement in education. Save the Children has been a pioneer in the community school movement, particularly in Africa. Community schools are created in areas where access to education is limited or non-existent. The community school approach has been recognized for its easy replicability, cost-effectiveness and dramatic improvements in basic education for children in need
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-45107-7
ER  -