Language Policy/Practice Seminar Series: Improving the Teaching and Learning of English in Secondary Schools: A case study of Zambia

17 March 2010, 17:30 - 19:30

Event Type:
Seminar
Speakers:
Casmir Chanda Casmir Chanda PhD, is an Education Consultant who was educated in Zambia and at the University of Cambridge. She has held posts as head teacher and Head of Department in Zambia and the UK respectively. Her subjects of special interest include classroom teaching and learning, school improvement, gender in education, and education and HIV/AIDS. Dr Chanda is a board member of Council for Education in the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Countries League Education Fund and a fellow of Royal Commonwealth Society. One of her major publications is Teaching and Learning of English in Secondary Schools; and articles on Gender and Education in the Commonwealth.
Venue:
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Venue Details:

Senate House, South Block, 1st Floor
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Description

There are many constraints that limit the effectiveness of current practice of teaching and learning English in Zambia. It is primarily through exploring the perspectives of teachers and students that useful insights can be gained into the current and effective practice in the distinctive Zambian context. There is a great deal of evidence to confirm the importance of financial constraints in limiting the effectiveness of teaching and learning English in Zambian secondary schools. However, strategies lessening the constraints on teaching and learning might be the way forward. Within the frameworks of democracy, a model based on - but necessarily going beyond - the evidence of teachers and students' thinking, of ways in which those concerned with secondary education (including central government, school leaders, teachers and students) might modify their thinking, their policies and their practices so that with already-available resources, improvements in the quality of teaching and learning English and other subjects may be possible.
Note: Teaching and Learning of English in Secondary Schools: A Zambian case study on improving Quality will be available for sale on the day for £15 each. Copies can be ordered from the author before and after the seminar.

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