Postdoc Working Group "Rethinking Accelerated Learning": Online Public Lecture 28 November 2024
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Under the theme ‘Accelerated Education Programmes for Out-of-School Young People in Africa’, on 28th November 2024, Ms. Miriam Tusiimire from War Child Canada and Ms. Fatu Yumkella from Dalan Development Consultants (Sierra Leone) presented various models of accelerated literacy programmes.
Find out more about the Postdoc Working Group here: https://www.bayreuth-academy.uni-bayreuth.de/en/postdoc-working-groups/Rethinking-Accelerated-Learning/index.html
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- Postdoc Working Group "Rethinking Accelerated Learning": Online Public Lecture 28 November 2024
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- English
- Date
- February 24, 2025
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- um and welome everybody my name is qu Ang and I am a sociologist of Education uh I'm currently working at koven University um today I'm very pleased to chare this session and also introduce our um work and our ambition for the working group and I thank so much maram and fat to um who has kindly agreed to deliver the lecture today um I would like to um say a few words about the concept of acceler accelerated learning uh when you uh hear the words accelerated learning you already think of time and space um so in term of times it's it suggests that it's in a shorter time frame um in term of space I think we refer to formal uh in school um in University but we also look at informal learning space uh which is outside School uh ad learning as a workplace we also look at learner who are the learner the learner could be preschool um school children the school a children um higher education student it could also be adult learner but even uh with politician who learn policy from elsewhere but a common feature is to learn it in a faster way um I refer to the work of Janna market maret and marus um mentioned a few area that I think is very relevant for today so before I introduce the speakers I would like to look at a few things that we um Talk um about when we mention accelerated learning we're talking a lot about the impact or in the simple words it advantaged and concern um so the advantage of um accelerated learning it often refer to Shorter cost um um it mean it reduce cost and time it's uh in a way it effective but it also improved the learner experience um is many more with our Stu our speakers will talk about today but there are some concerns as well um the biggest concern is about lower lowering standards um and normally Narrows the scope of learning um and restrict the freedoms of learner so we we have a few thing on the table today and today we focusing on informal or non in a way that is not in the mainstream education um in uh an education system and today I would… Read the full text about 8,135 words
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