The beautiful tree : a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Penguin viking 2009Description: 302 pISBN: 9780670083732Subject(s): Developing countries | Tooley James | travel | People with social disabilities--Education | poor-educationDDC classification: 371.9091724 Summary: An inspiring journey into the lives of families and teachers in the poorest communities of india, africa, and china who have successfully created their own private schools in response to failed public education wandering into the slums of hyderabad’s old city, tooley was initially shocked to find it overflowing with small, parent-funded schools could there be the answer to help achieve universal education the beautiful tree movingly uncovers the efforts of poor communities in education, and finds competent, committed entrepreneurs who have started schools catering to slum children he discovers young, engaged teachers, passionate entrepreneurs, and teaching models that work to ensure that students are engaged and learning he finds that even among the unrecognized private schools, average teacher attendance, and english and maths proficiency surpass the apathetic government school system this is a passionate and engaging account of the children, parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs who tooley encounters in the face of staunch government denial that these schools actually exist they taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts—they are building their own schools and learning to save themselves named after mahatma gandhi’s phrase for the schools of pre-colonial india, the beautiful tree is not another book lamenting what has gone wrong in the third world it is a book about what is going right, and it offers a simple lesson: both the entrepreneurial spirit and the love of parents for their children can help overcome the stifling effects of povertyItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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371.90472 TEA Teaching & supporting children with special educational needs & disabilities in primary schools / | 371.9071173 DIR Directory of colleges | 371.909 73 GAR/S Special education in contemporary society : | 371.9091724 TOO/B The beautiful tree : a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves | 371.91 WAL/A Addressing special educational needs and disability in the curriculum. | 371.911 SUD/V Visual impairment: our concerns | 371.912 ALK/D Deaf education |
An inspiring journey into the lives of families and teachers in the poorest communities of india, africa, and china who have successfully created their own private schools in response to failed public education wandering into the slums of hyderabad’s old city, tooley was initially shocked to find it overflowing with small, parent-funded schools could there be the answer to help achieve universal education the beautiful tree movingly uncovers the efforts of poor communities in education, and finds competent, committed entrepreneurs who have started schools catering to slum children he discovers young, engaged teachers, passionate entrepreneurs, and teaching models that work to ensure that students are engaged and learning he finds that even among the unrecognized private schools, average teacher attendance, and english and maths proficiency surpass the apathetic government school system this is a passionate and engaging account of the children, parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs who tooley encounters in the face of staunch government denial that these schools actually exist they taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts—they are building their own schools and learning to save themselves named after mahatma gandhi’s phrase for the schools of pre-colonial india, the beautiful tree is not another book lamenting what has gone wrong in the third world it is a book about what is going right, and it offers a simple lesson: both the entrepreneurial spirit and the love of parents for their children can help overcome the stifling effects of poverty
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