Educational Innovation in Developing Countries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Keith M. Lewin, Janet S. Stuart

      Pages 1-6

3. Changemakers and Change Models: Educational Innovation in Developing Countries

   1. Changemakers and Change Models: Educational Innovation in Developing Countries

      • Keith M. Lewin

      Pages 7-20

4. Curriculum Innovations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-22

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   2. Modernising the Geography Curriculum in Post-1976 China

      • Julian Leung Yat-ming

      Pages 23-60

   3. Science Education as a Development Strategy in Nigeria: a Study of Kano State Science Secondary Schools

      • Abdalla Uba Adamu

      Pages 61-91

5. Teacher Development Projects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-94

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   2. Inservice Training in Malaysia for the New Primary Curriculum (KBSR)

      • Noor Azmi Ibrahim

      Pages 95-126

   3. Classroom Action Research in Africa: a Lesotho Case Study of Curriculum and Professional Development

      • Janet S. Stuart

      Pages 127-152

6. Institutional Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-154

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   2. Perception Gaps in Technical Assistance Projects: the Sudanese Case

      • Fiona Leach

      Pages 155-184

   3. School Climates in The Gambia

      • Baboucarr Sarr, Keith Lewin

      Pages 185-213

7. Systems Reforms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-217

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   2. Vocationalising Secondary Education: A Study of the Junior Secondary Schooling Innovation in Nigeria

      • Florence Nwakoby, Keith Lewin

      Pages 219-255

   3. The National Youth Service in the Seychelles

      • Ian G. Haffenden

      Pages 256-280

   4. Postcript

      • Keith M. Lewin

      Pages 281-303

8. Back Matter

   Pages 304-325

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'Because of the insights offered the book under review should be compulsory reading for Ministers of Education and educational planners as well as for students of educational reform. They would find it readable, informative and disturbing. This could well become a classic account of why innovations fail. - Keith Watson, Department of Education Studies and Management, University of Reading Educational investment is now back at the top of the development agenda. The World Conference on Education for All confirmed the commitment of national governments and donors to provide opportunities for all children to enrol in school and reach minimum levels of achievement. This book takes a new look at the problems that confront politicians, planners, curriculum developers and teachers in implementing educational innovations in developing countries. The insights into theory and practice that emerge provide the intellectual yeast for the development of effective innovation strategies for the next decade.

• curriculum
• development aid
• education
• development policy

• University of Sussex, UK

  Keith M. Lewin, Janet S. Stuart

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