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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nA lecture on curriculum reform in Southern Africa by Nii 
 A.\nAddy\, doctoral candidate\, Stanford University and graduate trainee\,
 \nInstitute for the Study of International Development.\nIn sub-Saharan Af
 rica (SSA)\, billions of dollars have been\ninvested in education policy r
 eforms that seem to have failed.\nDespite a perception of general failure 
 in SSA\, there are\ndifferences in the extent to which policies “succeed” 
 or “fail.”\nAchieving success in SSA is most urgent now\, even as cycles o
 f\nfailed education reforms have resulted in increased cynicism\,\ndemoral
 ization\, and donor fatigue. Often\, teachers are blamed for\nnot implemen
 ting “good policies.” Yet\, the policies themselves\, and\nthe processes o
 f their development are hardly questioned. Motivated\nby questions about d
 ifferences in policy outcomes\, this\npresentation compares upper primary 
 mathematics curriculum reform\nprocesses in Botswana and South Africa\, ad
 jacent sub-Saharan\nAfrican countries with relatively different educationa
 l outcomes.\n The presentation highlights how divergent contexts shaped\nd
 ifferent curriculum development processes in the late 1990s and\nearly 200
 0s\, and led to a relatively ambitious\, yet vague\ncurriculum in South Af
 rica\, and a more specified curriculum in\nBotswana\, where teacher capaci
 ty had also been built over time\,\nresulting in relatively smaller policy
 -practice gaps.\n
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LOCATION:Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Why Do “Good Policies” Seem to Fail in Sub-Saharan Africa?  Compari
 ng Curriculum Reform Processes in Botswana and South Africa
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