Mali - Improving Learning in Public Schools
The overall objective of this Learning and Innovation Credit (2000-2003: US$3.8 million) was to further develop and assess the merits of bilingual education in Mali, in terms of financial and educational sustainability. The project was designed at...
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Format: | Brief |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/08/5532171/mali-improving-learning-public-schools http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9687 |
Summary: | The overall objective of this Learning
and Innovation Credit (2000-2003: US$3.8 million) was to
further develop and assess the merits of bilingual education
in Mali, in terms of financial and educational
sustainability. The project was designed at a time when the
education system was facing the following problems: (i) low
enrollments, including gender and regional imbalances; (ii)
poor learning results in primary schools; (iii) low
efficiency in public education; (iv) poor accessibility to
education for all children; (vi) proliferation of models for
community involvement in schooling; and (vii) central
management. To achieve its objective, the approach taken was
to introduce a bilingual education model - pedagogie
convergente - in six languages as the basis for introducing
curricular revisions, producing textbooks based on the
changed curricula, testing teaching and learning materials,
testing student achievement at the end-of-project to
determine the model's efficacy, and building community
partnerships to elicit local support for introducing the
model at the primary education level. |
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