Engaging the Community, Targeted Interventions: Achieving Scale in Basic Education Reform

Autor/in	Nebres, Bienvenido Florendo
Titel	Engaging the Community, Targeted Interventions: Achieving Scale in Basic Education Reform
Quelle	In: Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 8 (2009) 3, S.231-245 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1570-2081
DOI	10.1007/s10671-009-9068-3
Schlagwörter	Educational Development; Strategic Planning; Mathematics Education; Elementary Education; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Economically Disadvantaged; Program Descriptions; Systems Approach; Improvement Programs; Program Evaluation; Educational Improvement; Educational Environment; Developing Nations; Educational Policy; Educational Principles; Philippines + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsentwicklung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Mathematische Bildung; Elementarunterricht; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Systemischer Ansatz; Effizienzsteigerung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsprinzip; Philippinen
Abstract	In 1983, after over 10 years of working on mathematics education reform in the Philippines, I wrote a paper for a Tokyo conference arguing that education reform in developing countries such as the Philippines should begin by working on macro-problems, namely the social, political, and economic environment of the schools, as a context for the micro-problems, the usual concerns of curriculum, teacher training, textbooks, and so forth. This article recounts how we carried out this approach to education reform in three large-scale initiatives: the Third Elementary Education Project (TEEP), the Synergeia Foundation, and the Ateneo Center for Educational Development. The TEEP is an education project for the 23 poorest provinces in the Philippines, which began in the mid-1990s and was carried out fully from 2000 to 2006. The Synergeia Foundation, Inc. and the Ateneo Center for Educational Development are organizations which have been working with elementary schools on the scale of whole towns, cities, and provinces. They are also now beginning their work with high schools. What these initiatives have in common is that they begin by engaging the community, the school superintendents and supervisors, principals, teachers, parents, and political and civic leaders. A process is followed to have them focus on the realities of their schools, develop consensus on strategic plans and priorities, and participate in the process of achieving goals. Implementation then focuses on what we call targeted interventions, such as teacher training, educational materials, and physical facilities, which address the agreed-on priorities. The evaluation of the Third Elementary Education Project (TEEP) at its end in 2006 shows that the approach leads to major improvement on a large scale. We are seeing the same kind of results in the work of Synergeia Foundation, Inc. and the Ateneo Center for Educational Development. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10