From global advocacy to local resistance. Benin's experience of competency-based school curriculum

In the vein of the "Education for All" campaign to promote access to education, a wave of curriculum revision along the competency-based approach has swept francophone countries in sub-Sahara Africa, thus Benin. The current study documents local actors' various interactions with the curricular reform in the course of its implementation. Secondary data supplemented with qualitative research techniques such as semi-structured interviews with teachers, and focus group discussions with parents enable to relate the patterns of change, the challenges and resistance to change. The actors spectrum generated illustrates advocacy on one hand and resistance on the other. Advocacy of local actors reflects the global optimistic discourse on education and resistance is favoured by disappointing policy outcomes as well as contextual constraints. (DIPF/Orig.)

Nina Meister: Wie beginnt der Unterricht? Hermeneutische Rekonstruktionen von Unterrichtsanfängen in Frankreich und Deutschland. Opladen / Berlin / Toronto: Budrich UniPress Ltd. 2012 [...] [Sammelrezension]

Sammelrezension von: 1.Nina Meister: Wie beginnt der Unterricht? Hermeneutische Rekonstruktionen von Unterrichtsanfängen in Frankreich und Deutschland, Opladen / Berlin / Toronto: Budrich UniPress Ltd. 2012 (218 S.; ISBN 978-3-86388-008-8) 2.Carla Schelle / Oliver Holstein / Nina Meister (Hrsg.): Schule und Unterricht in Frankreich, Ein Beitrag zur Empirie, Theorie und Praxis, Münster / New York / München / Berlin: Waxmann 2012 (300 S.; ISBN 978-3-8309-2652-8)