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Bringing the Story Home. A guide for developing and selecting materials
for early childhood education: The South African perspective
By HUGO, Nadine
Perspectives on African Book Development Series, No 17. ADEA Working
Group on Books and Learning Materials, 2006. ISBN: 978-13-901 183 0241.
61 pages.
Price: £11.95 ($20)
There is a desperate shortage of relevant material written
in indigenous languages for children from birth to 9 years throughout
Africa. This publication has been written to encourage writers, publishers
and book selectors to write, publish and select more locally-produced
material of quality for children in Africa. Although this publication
is focused on the South African ECD book industry as an example of what
is available and should be available, the lessons in best practice that
can be extracted from this text transcend language and context and are
relevant to the rest of Africa.
Making Reading Matter: Guidelines for selecting, developing and
disseminating easy readers for adults
By THUMBADOO, Beulah
Perspectives on African Book Development Series, No 16. ADEA Working
Group on Books and Learning Materials, 2006. ISBN: 978 1 901830 22 4.
52 pages.
Price: £11.95 ($20) .
This document highlights the key processes and approaches
involved in successfully selecting, developing and disseminating easy
reading material for adults. It is based in no small part on the experiences
of a civil society organization, the ERA Initiative, which was active
in South Africa during the 1990's. It also draws on experiences from
Asia, Africa and Canada.. Making Reading Matter asks questions and raises
issues that need to be considered in order to ensure that the materials
required for adults wanting to improve their reading proficiency are
as relevant and appropriate to their needs as possible. It is a useful
handbook for communities and agencies working towards the improvement
of adult literacy.
Changing Public/Private Partnerships in the African Book Sector
By BRICKHILL, Paul; CHIRWA, Chris & LINDAHL, Bengt
Perspectives on African Book Development
Series, No 15.
ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials and the Sub-Saharan
Publishers, Accra, 2006. ISBN 92-9178-056-1.
Price: £24.95
This study documents the trend towards the increasing
liberalization of the publishing and bookselling industry and the decentralization
of book selection and procurement to school level in different parts
of Africa. It highlights the development of different kinds of public/private
partnerships that reflect this fundamental change in textbook procurement,
and calls on Governments to create better enabling environments for
their book industries to flourish.
Crossing Borders: Adapting educational materials for other countries:
The Soul City Choose Life Project
By PERLMAN, Harriet
Perspectives on African Book Development Series, No 14.
ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials, 2004. ISBN: 19-0183-018-7
Crossing borders highlights the key processes and approaches
involved in successfully adapting print materials for use in other countries.
It is based on Soul City's recent innovative work in this area and identifies
lessons learned from taking materials that have been developed in one
context for use in another. Crossing Borders asks questions and raises
issues that need to be considered in order to ensure that the materials
you adapt are as relevant as possible to the people who will use them.
It is full of practical ideas and tips for people involved in planning
and managing the adaptation process.
Making Book Coordination Work!
by Salzano, Carmela
Perspectives on African Book Development Series,
No 13. ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials, UNESCO/DANIDA,
2002. ISBN 1 901830 16 0.
Price: £ 17.95/US$ 25.95.
This book synthesizes recent moves to coordinate
book sector planning and development. It describes the changing scenario
in which book sector coordination has become necessary, and raises the
key issues that need to be confronted as ad hoc committees or working
parties become more established. Examples are drawn from stakeholder
experience in the public, private and NGO sectors in Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The insights that emerge from the synthesis
should provide inspiration for all those interested in the establishment
of a book coordination structure in their countries.
Upgrading Book Distribution in Africa
Edited by Read, Tony; Denning, Carmelle and Bontoux.
Perspectives on African Book Development Series, No 12. ADEA Working
Group on Books and Learning Materials, 2001. ISBN 1-901830-15-2.
Price: £17.95/$29.95.
The quest for an equitable textbook distribution system
represents one of the key challenges facing governments in sub--Saharan
Africa today. This study tries to bridge the gap between what is happening
and what is possible. It provides a comparative analysis of the key
policy issues affecting book distribution in Africa, drawing on major
case studies done in Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, and Uganda,
and mini studies from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte
d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Togo. This study includes
key options that policy makers need to consider in developing national
frameworks for efficient textbook delivery. It represents the most comprehensive
survey of efficient textbook distribution in Africa for over a decade.
Gender-Sensitive Editing
by Monde Sifuniso et al.
Perspectives on African Book Development
Series. ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials, 2000. ISBN: 1-901830-13-6.
Price: £17.95 /$29.95.
Materials used both
inside and outside school continue to suffer from gender stereotyping and bias.
This handbook was originally intended for publishers and editors involved in developing
popular reading material. It has been expanded into a training manual for use
by a wide range of professional people involved in materials development like
authors, curriculum developers, teachers, reading specialists, adult literacy
trainers, illustrators and journalists as well as the intended target audience.
The training modules have been designed for use in workshop situations, and are
accompanied by a pack of laminated training cards that can be used in different
combinations by trainers or for self-study purposes.
Expanding
the Book Trade Across Africa:
A Study ofCurrent Barriers and Future Potential
by Ruth Makotsi with Flora Musonda et al.
Perspectives on African
Book Development Series. ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials, 2000.
ISBN: 1-901830-19-5.
Price: £10.95 /$18.95.
In spite of the expansion of publishing in Africa over the past decade, few countries
are able to provide the full range of good quality, relevant material that a growing
reading public requires. In the struggle to combat illiteracy, there have been
persistent calls for more cross-border trade and co-publishing ventures. However,
book access is thwarted from reaching its full potential by the taxes and legislative
procedures that affect the growing book trade both within and between countries.
Based on research in ten African countries and in selected regional economic community
organizations, this joint ADEA/APNET (African Publishers’ Network) publication
identifies the barriers and puts forward solutions that are applicable throughout
the continent.
Books for Schools:
Improving Access to Supplementary
Reading Materials in Africa
edited by Diana Rosenberg.
Perspectives on African Book Development Series. ADEA Working Group on Books and
Learning Materials, 2000. ISBN: 1-901830-09-8.
Price: £13.95 /$23.95.
Limited access to books and to library services has had
a profound effect on education in Africa. This book explores the provision of
supplementary reading materials in a number of African countries. It reveals how
high expectations, ambitious plans and individual efforts have frequently been
stunted by inadequate planning, resources and infrastructure, and lack of follow-up
in the form of training for teachers in teaching with books. Most of the studies
conclude that the way forward is to develop a viable local publishing industry
in tandem with improved training for teachers.
Financing Textbooks
and Teacher Training Materials
by A.J. da Cruz, T. A. George,
F. Z. Gnahoré, F. K. Kouakou, P. Mendonça, A. Read, C. Sehlabi, and M.
Simão.
Perspectives on African Book Development Series. ADEA Working
Group on Books and Learning Materials, 1998. ISBN: 1-901830-12-8.
Price:
£10.95/$18.95.
The provision of relevant, good
quality, affordable school textbooks is a key educational objective. Yet few children
have access to the books they need in order to underpin effective learning. Despite
funding agency contributions, free textbook supply from primary through secondary
level can be problematic as a long-term solution. At the same time, the costs
of learning materials continues to be prohibitive for many parents. This book
examines the key issues in funding provision of textbooks and training materials
through individual country perspectives from The Gambia, Lesotho, Mozambique and
Côte d’Ivoire, and describes the different strategies adopted in order
to provide a cost effective, equitable and sustainable book funding system.
An Introduction to Publishing Management
by Ian Montagnes.
Perspectives on African Book Development Series. ADEA Working Group on Books and
Learning Materials, 1998. ISBN: 1-901830-06-3. Also exists in French.
£13.95 /$22.95.
This introduction to publishing
management sets out the basics of efficient, economical and prudent management
of time and money in publishing. It is intended to equip African publishers with
techniques that will contribute to success, whether they are tendering for contracts
or competing in a completely open market.
While much
of the emphasis is on textbooks, the principles apply to all types of publishing,
and to most countries of the world. The premise is that managers need not be skilled
in every area of publishing, but do need to know enough about each area to ask
the right questions about strategies, costs and cost recovery.
The
Economics of Publishing Educational Materials in Africa
by Walter
Bgoya, Nigel Billany, Marita Lujanen, Richard Noonan, Timo Paajanen and Eero Syrjänen.
Perspectives on African Book Development Series. ADEA Working Group on Books and
Learning Materials, 1997. ISBN: 1-901830-02-0. Also exists in French.
Out
of print.
The quality of education depends to
a large degree on the availability of textbooks. To what extent is this perception
honoured by the actions of educational policy makers? Using research from a wide
range of African countries, the authors examine the issues and provide an understanding
of the publishing process and market.
Cost-Effectiveness
of Publishing Educational Materials in African Languages
edited
by Maureen Woodhall.
Perspectives on African Book Development Series.
ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials,1997. ISBN: 1-901830-00-4.
Also exists in French.
Out of print.
New ground is broken in providing case studies of an under-researched aspect of
policy. Research conducted in five African countries (Gambia, Madagascar, Namibia,
Senegal and Zambia) examines, within a cost-effective framework, the advantages
and problems of learning in a local or national language vs. learning through
a second, foreign language.
A Bibliography of Publishing and the
Book Chain in Sub-Saharan Africa - 1997
edited by Hans M. Zell.
Perspectives on African Book Development Series ADEA Working Group on Books and
Learning Materials, 1998. ISBN: 1-901830-08-X.
Price: £19.95 /$32.95.
A Bibliography of Publishing and the Book Chain in Sub-Saharan
Africa - 1996
by Hans M. Zell.
Perspectives
on African Book Development Series. ADEA Working Group on Books and Learning Materials,
1997. ISBN: 1-901830-04-7.
These bibliographies of the book chain in sub-Saharan
Africa supplement the Publishing and Book Development in Sub-Saharan
-Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, by Hans Zell and Cécile Lomer,
published in 1996. They record, annotate and classify literature on
the subject which has appeared since the main bibliography was published.
The literature includes new serials, books, references sources, reports,
papers in edited collections, periodical articles as well as book sector
studies.
Publications
available in French only
Stratégies pour le développement d'un secteur éditorial en langues
nationales dans les pays du Sahel - Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger et Sénégal.
par ALIDOU-NGAME Hassana
Perspectives sur le développement du livre africain n° 8. Groupe de
travail de l'ADEA sur les livres et le matériel éducatif, 2000. ISBN
: 1-901-830-11X
(Strategies For Developing a National Languages Book Sector in
the Sahel Countries. Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal)
To address the problem of illiteracy, most Francophone African countries
have adopted the use of African languages as a fundamental strategy
to improve and develop their educational programs. The primary aim of
this strategy is to integrate African languages as a means of oral and
written communication in education. This work synthesizes the proceedings
of a workshop that sought to answer the following question: how can
Africa, and more specifically certain Sahel countries, achieve a level
of literacy that is optimal for these countries' socio-economic development
in the 21st century?
Les habitudes de lecture en Afrique subsaharienne et les apprentissages
traditionnels. Bibliographie analytique
par GAZZA, Sophia
Perspectives sur le développement du livre africain n° 4. Groupe de
travail de l'ADEA sur les livres et le matériel éducatif, 1997. ISBN
: 1-901-830-05-5.
(Reading Habits in Sub-Saharan Africa and Traditional Learning. An
Analytical Bibliography)
Juxtaposed against the oral tradition, books were long perceived
as foreign media with inadequate cultural content. What are the patterns
of reading habits in Africa today? This document, divided in three parts,
studies the relationships between Africans and books, reading practices
and policies to promote reading in Africa. The reader discovers how
reading is increasingly perceived in Africa as a new form of entertainment,
directly related to the expansion of school-based education. Reading
is practiced collectively, either in evening gatherings or in public
readings with the local community. The era when the oral culture was
opposed to the written culture seems to be over, although in Africa
knowledge is never transmitted exclusively in writing.
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