Primary education

learn best in their first language as a basis for bilingual and multilingual education. Studies indicate that six to eight years of education is necessary for the development of literacy and verbal proficiency required for secondary school academic achievement. Empirical evidence suggests that the ability of a child to learn a second language does not suffer if the primary language used for instruction in the entire primary school is the first language. The fluency in mother tongue lays a…

policies for primary education were “very harmful to equity, have not improved quality or efficiency significantly, if at all, and have been inimical to the attainment of EFA and the MDGs.” In doing so, these neoliberal policies were proven to be unproductive in providing significant attention to educational reform efforts by concentrating solely on access to primary schooling. However, in more recent years, given the abolition of user fees combined with the push towards Education for All (EFA)…

this year’s Global Education Report’s survey results, and try to understand what is influencing their choices. NJ MED’s research staff uses the survey participants overall responses from the 12 choices to choose from; in the order of what they say needs the most improvement, and try to provide perspective why, and adds their suggestions on what might work to improve each problem area: Better Teachers- 23%. Teachers are undouble the most important component to any nation’s education systems.…

Education: Only in the Classroom? When people think about being an elementary education major, they think that it is only in the classroom teaching kids in kindergarten through sixth grade. There are many more opportunities for teachers. They can volunteer in the Peace Corps, teach over seas, and English as a second language. These options can be just as rewarding as teaching in a regular classroom. The Peace Corps has many volunteer programs for anyone that is 18 years or older, and a…

reputable. However, during my school years in both primary and secondary, I always felt a little alienated as I felt I didn’t have much in common with my peers. The pupils in both schools were predominantly white, middle-class pupils; whereas, I was a working-class, Asian student. This affected my socialising skills during my school years and also affected my educational attainment slightly. I do feel my attainment would have been better in primary and secondary school if I…

language fluently, critically, effectively and creatively used as a range of modes of communication including storytelling, music, visual Arts, drama and media, as well as writing, reading, viewing and writing (Australian Government Department of Education Employment and Work Relations [DEEWR], 2009, p.46). Students with in the Australian Curriculum become literate by developing skills, knowledge and dispositions to understand and utilize language confidently for communicating, learning in the…

Three Important Changes In The History Of Education Butler Act 1944 The Butler Act was one of the most important education acts to be put in place throughout the whole history of education. The 1944 Butler Act replaced almost all previous education legislation and set some strong foundations for the post war education system. One of the main driving forces behind this act was the ideology that education should be about more opportunity and equal opportunities. Giving every child a more equal…

While Poverty and marginalization have severely thrown the goal of Universal education and other educational objectives off course; Africa’s education crisis is a reflection of the regions stark economic and political challenges which inadvertently perpetuated the fault lines that threaten the regions social progress. Consequentially millions of children and youth of their futures. In Sub-Saharan Africa the educationally marginalized hail from rural or remote villages, conflict affected…

Since kindergarten, I have written to a pen pal in Bumwalukani, Uganda named Caroline Watsemba. My family sponsors her, which means that we pay for her education. Caroline went to a school called Arlington Academy of Hope, which was created by two Ugandan parents at my old school. Out of 19,000 schools in Uganda, AAH is one of the best primary schools in the country, ranking in the top 1%. It is well structured, full of adequate materials to teach with, provides each student with a uniform and…

meant that many schools had to save money through staff reductions. This therefore meant that schools had to “compromise” with the creation of composite classes, with one teacher teaching more than one year group. As a result of this, multi-age education was not limited to just rural schools, created because of small numbers, but also in large, city schools, in places such as Belfast and Lisburn. The creation of multi-age classroomed schools in areas not traditionally accustomed to them causes…