Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa
Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa
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面向未来：非洲的学校教育
DOI：
10.1596/978-1-4648-1260-6
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发表时间：
2018
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通讯作者：
Jee‐Peng Tan
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作者：
S. Bashir;Marlaine Lockheed;E. Ninan;Jee‐Peng Tan
撒哈拉以南非洲地区在区域和全球范围内正变得更加多样化、城市化和一体化，为该大陆规模庞大且不断增长的青年人口带来了更多更好的就业机会。要实现这一潜力，非洲青年必须在基础教育方面打下坚实的基础，并为他们中的许多人提供继续接受基础教育的机会。这些年轻人是非洲大陆未来的劳动力，对于各国利用世界丰富的科技知识积累进行经济和社会转型至关重要。这一机制是如此重要，以至于许多（如果不是全部的话）非洲领导人越来越多地将知识资本的建设作为其国家发展愿景和战略的核心。在过去的25年里，撒哈拉以南非洲地区一直把重点放在小学招生上，这是发展人力资本的第一步。如何通过改善基础教育的学习成果，同时扩大基础教育的可及性和完成率，建立撒哈拉以南非洲地区的知识资本，是本书的重点。它从本地区和本地区吸取了关于如何促进学习以及如何更好地实施已知有效措施的经验教训。它还对该地区的多个数据集进行了广泛的新分析，整合了有关儿童学习、入学机会和基础教育进展的研究结果，为文献提供了补充。
Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming more diverse, urbanized, and integrated regionally and globally, bringing the promise of more and better jobs to the continent’s sizable and growing youth population. Realizing this potential requires that young Africans have a solid foundation in basic education and opportunities for many of them to continue beyond basic education. These youths, the continent’s future workforce are essential for countries to tap into the world’s rich accumulation of scientific and technological knowledge for economic and social transformation. This mechanism is so critical that many, if not all, African leaders have increasingly made the building of knowledge capital a centerpiece of their countries’ visions and strategies for development. For the past 25 years, Sub-Saharan Africa has focused on enrolling students in primary school, the first step in developing human capital. How to build Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge capital by improving learning outcomes in basic education while expanding access and completion is the focus of this book. It draws lessons from the region and for the region about what works to boost learning and how to better implement what is known to have worked. It also adds to the literature with its extensive new analyses of multiple datasets from the region, integrating findings about children’s learning, access to school, and progress through basic education.