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OverviewThe crisis in South African education is now well documented. There is a growing recognition that South African schoolchildren are stumbling at the very first hurdle - they are failing to learn to read in both their home language and in English as a second language during the formative schooling years from Grades 1 to 3. Although cross-national studies like the Progress in International Literacy Study (PIRLS) and our own Annual National Assessment (ANA) consistently show that less than half of children are fluent readers at the end of the Foundation Phase, less is known about the kinds of effective interventions we need to put in place to address this massive challenge. Many initiatives, both government and private sector, have been undertaken over the past three decades around early reading in particular, but few appear to have improved reading at scale or to have been sustainable. This book revisits and updates the current trends in early-grade learning and presents ground-breaking research undertaken in South Africa that shows how the problem can be fixed. Although a number of informative books on the challenges of South African education have been published in the past decade, there is no text that analyses the scientific evidence on which to build a system-wide turnaround strategy. The aim of this book is to offer policy and academic communities, as well as the wider public, an opportunity to engage with cutting-edge approaches to system-wide instruction reform and with the scientific evidence from fieldwork. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brahm FleischPublisher: University of Cape Town Press Imprint: University of Cape Town Press Dimensions: Width: 16.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.50cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781775822462ISBN 10: 177582246 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 18 July 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews`With the push for high-quality schooling part of the Sustainable Development Goals, and South Africa's overall poor performance receiving close scrutiny, this book will become the standard work on literacy improvement in sub-Saharan Africa for many years to come. The author is up to date on international literature and moves with lightning speed across many of the major trends in recent years without falling into the uncritical adaptation of prevalent concepts that characterizes too much educational research.' - Prof. Dennis Shirley, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Educational Change. ‘With the push for high-quality schooling part of the Sustainable Development Goals, and South Africa’s overall poor performance receiving close scrutiny, this book will become the standard work on literacy improvement in sub-Saharan Africa for many years to come. The author is up to date on international literature and moves with lightning speed across many of the major trends in recent years without falling into the uncritical adaptation of prevalent concepts that characterizes too much educational research.’ – Prof. Dennis Shirley, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Educational Change. 'With the push for high-quality schooling part of the Sustainable Development Goals, and South Africa's overall poor performance receiving close scrutiny, this book will become the standard work on literacy improvement in sub-Saharan Africa for many years to come. The author is up to date on international literature and moves with lightning speed across many of the major trends in recent years without falling into the uncritical adaptation of prevalent concepts that characterizes too much educational research.' - Prof. Dennis Shirley, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Educational Change. Author InformationBrahm Fleisch is a Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the School of Education, University of Witwatersrand, and a leading authority on education reform at elementary level. He is the author of Primary Education in Crisis: Why South African Schoolchildren Underachieve in Reading and Mathematics (Juta, 2008) and co-editor of Investment Choices for South African Education (Wits University Press, 2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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