{"product_id":"9780821380710","title":"Teachers in Anglophone Africa: Issues in Teacher Supply, Training, and Management","description":"\u003cp\u003eTeachers are at the heart of good education, and good teacher policies are essential to ensure adequate supply, deployment and management of teachers. Enrollment in primary education has grown rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet teacher policy in the region has often evolved without clear planning; in the absence of an overall strategy, countries have experienced serious problem with teacher supply and deployment, as well as with the quality of teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasd on case studies of education system and practices in eight English-speaking African countries, Teachers in Anglophone Africa: Issues in Teacher Supply, Training, and Management closely examines issues of teacher supply, deployment, management and finance. The book suggests that these issues are closely interrelated. Low numbers of qualified teaching graduates may result in teacher shortages; these shortages may make it difficult to deploy teachers effectively. Problems with teacher deployment may result in inefficient to deploy teachers effectively. Problems with teacher deployment may result in inefficient utilization of the teacher available, and those teachers' effectiveness may be further reduced by weak teacher management and support systems. The book identifies policies and practices that are working on the ground, noting their potential pitfalls and pointing out that policies designed to address one problem may make another problem worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeachers in Anglophone Africa: Issues in Teacher Supply, Training, and Management offers a useful synthesis of the issues and draws together a series of promising practices, which can serve as positive suggestions for countries seeking to improve their teacher policies. Thebook should be of great assistance to education ministries and their development partners throughout the region as they address the challenges of the next phases of expansion in education.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Bank Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130228293872,"sku":"9780821380710","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780821380710","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}