Participation and Entitlement in Educational Development: Accounts of Participatory Practitioner Research in Botswana: Accounts of Participatory Practitioner Research in Botswana

The Botswana Inservice and Preservice Project (BIPP) aimed to enhance education quality in Botswana through initial teacher training, differentiated teaching, and a national learning resource center. Key themes included entitlement, inclusion, partnership, ownership, participation, and empowerment. Practitioner research projects demonstrated the importance of these themes and the need for planned educational change to consider each context's uniqueness.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Botswana Inservice and Preservice Project (BIPP), funded by the UK's Department for International Development and launched in 1996, aimed to improve the quality of education in Botswana. It was a comprehensive project that included initial teacher training, differentiated and mixed ability teaching, and the development of a national learning resource center. Key features of the project included teamwork, local ownership, and the fostering of a spirit of collaboration. During the project, several themes emerged, including entitlement, inclusion, partnership, ownership, participation, and empowerment. This volume presents the outcomes of various practitioner research projects that demonstrate the importance of these themes. These studies showcase genuine, professional engagement with real change in response to identified development needs in schools, regional clusters, and colleges of education. They also emphasize that effective planned educational change must consider the uniqueness of each context, including its people, culture, economic, and political policies.

ISBN-13: 9781138713925