Lesotho: A Baseline Study of the Teacher Education System (CIE, 2000, 83 p.)

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Multi-Site Teacher Education Research Project (MUSTER)

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Abstract

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1 Background of the Country

1.2 Background to the Study

1.3 Formal Education System

1.4 The Baseline Study

Chapter Two: Overview of the Main Characteristics of the Lesotho Education System

2.1 The Lesotho Education System

2.2 Patterns of Enrolment

2.3 Repetition and Dropout Rates

2.4 Assessment

2.5 Teachers

Chapter Three: Overview of the Main Characteristics of the Teacher Education System in Lesotho

3.1 Overview

3.2 Governance of the College

3.3 College Programmes

3.4 Enrolment

3.5 Alternative Pathways for Untrained Teachers to Become Trained

3.6 Management Structure of the NTTC

3.7 Staffing

3.8 Research

3.9 Future Developments and Important Issues

Chapter Four: Preliminary Analysis of the Teacher Education Curriculum

4.1 Overall Aims

4.2 The Curriculum

4.3 Patterns of Instruction

4.4 Teaching Practice

4.5 Assessment

4.6 Quality Standards

4.7 Emerging Issues

Chapter Five: Supply and Demand for Teachers

5.1 Projection of Enrolment in Primary and Secondary Schools

5.2 Projections of Demand for New Teachers

5.3 Training Capacity

Chapter Six: The Quality and Effectiveness of Teacher Education

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Assumptions Made About Trainees When They Join Teacher Training

6.3 Reasons for Becoming a Teacher

6.4 The College, the Schools, and the Trainers

6.5 Quantity and Quality of Applicants

6.6 Support to the Newly Qualified Teachers: Existing Arrangements

6.7 Emerging Issues

Chapter Seven: Teacher Roles, Attitudes and Identities

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Perceptions and Attitudes

7.3 Teachers’ Roles and Practices

7.4 Conclusion

Chapter Eight: Gender

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Gender Issues in the Teacher Training Curriculum

8.3 Gender Issues and General Educational Debate

8.4 Efforts Made to Address Gender Imbalances

8.5 Conclusion

Chapter Nine: Resources for Teacher Education

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Overall education budget; proportions allocated to primary, secondary, and tertiary levels; costs per student at different levels

9.3 Allocation to teacher education institution - teaching salaries, non-teaching salaries, non-salary expenditure, capital/development expenditure

9.4 Cost Effectiveness of Teacher Training

9.5 Costs per student for different types of training, changes in costs over the last five years

9.6 Ratios of teacher training staff to student trainees on different types of courses in different types of institutions

9.7 Salary Scales for teachers and for teacher trainers

9.8 Number of working days in the training college year

9.9 Conclusion

Chapter Ten: Some Current Issues in Teacher Education in Lesotho

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The position and capacity of NTTC

10.3 Curriculum

10.4 Questions of quality

10.5 Religious affiliation

10.6 Gender

10.7 Lesotho and South Africa

Appendix 1: Lesotho’s Education System

Appendix 2: Lesotho Education Pyramid 1996

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