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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27928| Title: | Rural children’s access to the content of education |
| Authors: | Ansell, N Froerer, P Huijsmans, R |
| Issue Date: | 24-Sep-2018 |
| Publisher: | Brunel University London |
| Citation: | Ansell, N., Froerer, F. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) Rural children’s access to the content of education, Policy Brief, September, pp. 1 - 4. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Content-of-Education-1.pdf. |
| Series/Report no.: | Policy Brief;September 2018 |
| Abstract: | The content of education is an obstacle in rural children’s learning. The subject matter and the way in which it is taught render learning more abstract for rural children. The language of education is often different from rural children’s home language. Rural life is underrepresented in textbooks, and the partial depictions of village life that have made it into textbooks are often out of sync with children’s lived reality. The content of education must be revisited to stimulate children to envisage the relevance of schooling for current and future rural lives. |
| Description: | Policy Brief heading: Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings An ESRC-DFID-funded collaborative research project (ES/N01037X/1). Research team LESOTHO Prof Nicola Ansell, Brunel University Dr Claire Dungey, Brunel University Dr Pulane Lefoka, Centre for Teaching and Learning, National University of Lesotho INDIA Dr Peggy Froerer, Brunel University Dr Arshima Dost, Brunel University Mr Muniv Shukla, Gram Mitra Samaj Sevi Sanstha, Chhattisgarh LAOS Dr Roy Huijsmans, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam Mr Syvongsay Changpitikoun, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam Ms Jodie Fonseca, Plan International, Laos SURVEY Prof Ian Rivers, Strathclyde University Recommendations: * Textbooks and curricula could illustrate ideas and concepts through concrete examples that are familiar to rural students * More varied and authentic representations of rural life would assist children to relate their education to their own current and future lives * Greater use of children’s home languages in school would likewise make schooling more accessible and appear more relevant to futures that don’t revolve around salaried employment * (Aspiring) rural teachers should be encouraged to work more flexibly with the standard content and adapt it more to the realities of remote rural context in terms of enforcement of school uniform policies, classroom language, adapting textbook examples, or merely engaging rural students in exercises that stimulate them to identify how their own lives relate to textbook representations |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27928 |
| Other Identifiers: | ORCID iD: Nicola Ansell https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6129-7413 ORCID iD: Peggy Froerer https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1605-3564 |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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