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AUTHOR
Alain Patrick Nkengne Nkengne
Les enseignants contractuels : Avatars et fatalités de l'Education pour Tous
Movement towards universal education is today at the origin of one of the most significant trend for job creation in sub-Saharan Africa. Following the economic adjustment period and the marked will of the communities to act on the educational sector, alternate status of teachers emerged. These new badly trained teachers, often largely less remunerated compared to civil servants, can gather nowadays in certain countries, the majority of the national teaching staff. This text aims at monitoring various elements on the teaching effectiveness, seemingly satisfactory insofar as they work at low grades in primary school, that on their remuneration and employment conditions which seem to be charac…
Modèle d'explication de l'issue des réformes des politiques publiques en Afrique sub-saharienne : Illustration avec la politique des enseignants contractuels
African countries' political arena is witnessing major changes due to the involvement of new political actors in the public policy making process (donors, political parties, civil society). In the past, the formulation of policies was a reflection of the central authority's will. Nowadays, governments are confronted with more resistance when adopting reforms. This paper laborates a model that describes the policy process in African countries and shows how new actors can influence the designing of the reform to their advantage. The model predicts that government success or failure in designing a reform according to its will is a function of the adoption pattern chosen and the ability of the …
La relation entre réformes des programmes scolaires et acquisitions à l'école primaire en Afrique : réalité ou fantasme ? L'exemple de l'approche par les compétences
This paper proposes a critical analysis of the introduction and implementation of new school curricula in Africa based on the example of the skills based approach (SBA). In many countries, the SBA has been chosen as the most appropriate and relevant method to change their school curriculum and improve education quality. We analyse the implementation of those new curricula based on the SBA in primary schools in Mauritania. The results show that the main problems about pupil's achievement lie rather in the effective implementation of curricula in the classrooms than in their contents. Additional analyses show that this result is confirmed, as well, in other African countries. As a background …
What contexts are favorable for the adoption of the contract teacher policy ?
Education systems in Francophone African countries are undergoing major reforms, consequence of the international commitment to achieve Universal Primary Education (UPE) by 2015. Teachers' recruitment is among the most important reforms for at least two reasons: first, various researches presented it as necessary otherwise UPE will not be achieved; second, the alternative policy proposed is unpopular as new teachers are recruited with lower qualification, receive lower salaries and have a less secure job position. Yet, some governments have succeeded in changing their teacher recruitment scheme and others have not. Conditions allowing a government to make the reform are still uninvestigated…