BOOKSHELP

• Teacher Education Resource Pack: Student Materials. This resource pack aims at helping schools to respond to student diversity, in particular students vulnerable to exclusion and underachievement. It comprises four modules: special needs in the classroom, special needs: definitions and responses, towards effective schools for all, and help and support.
Price: 14.80 euros. The Teacher’s Library series.
Available from UNESCO Publishing: www.upo.unesco.org

• Increasing teacher effectiveness by Lorin W. Anderson. This publication shows that regardless of new materials or curricula, educational effectiveness depends primarily on teachers and the way they teach their classes. This updated edition summarizes a wealth of new research from countries with very different social and economic backgrounds.
Price: 12.20 euros. Fundamentals of Educational Planning, 79, IIEP.
Available from UNESCO Publishing: www.upo.unesco.org

• Education for All through Voices of Children. This attractive booklet presents the opinions of young people in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on education and in particular on why children do not attend school. “There are many reasons for children’s non-attendance,” says 16-year-old Kokshetau (Kazakhstan). “It’s senseless to repeat them... We need to start doing something and help all children.”
Available from UNESCO Almaty.
E-mail: almaty@unesco.org

• Basic Education Studies in Bangladesh edited by Dr Kamrunnessa Begum and Salma Akhter. The studies in this document focus on early childhood services, out-of-school adolescents, a framework for equivalent competencies for formal and non-formal education, monitoring and evaluation of non-formal education, quality primary education, employment of school dropouts, status of public and private schools and an ethno-linguistic study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Area.
Available from UNESCO Dhaka.
E-mail: dhaka@unesco.org

• Changing Teaching Practices: Using Curriculum Differentiation to Respond to Students’ Diversity. This booklet and CD-ROM, developed to facilitate and support inclusive education, is intended to help teachers to teach all students together regardless of their abilities, disabilities or background.
E-mail: sdi@unesco.org

• Education for All: Sharing Challenges, Multiplying Results. This brochure examines where Latin America and the Caribbean stands vis-à-vis each of the six Education for All goals. It also presents UNESCO’s Regional Project for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (PRELAC).
Available in English, Portuguese and Spanish from UNESCO Santiago.
E-mail: santiago@unesco.org

• Inter-sectoral Co-ordination in Early Childhood Policies and Programmes: A Synthesis of Experiences in Latin America. This document, based on country studies in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba and Mexico, examines different inter-sectoral coordination mechanisms in early childhood care and education and analyses what contributes to successful coordination.
Available from UNESCO Santiago.
E-mail: santiago@unesco.org

• EFA in South Asia: Analytical Study on Dakar Goals. This series of six booklets documents what is being done to achieve each of the six Education for All goals in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Available from UNESCO New Delhi.
E-mail: newdelhi@unesco.org

• Higher Education in a Globalized Society: Education Position Paper. This 28-page document is one of a series of UNESCO position papers on key issues relevant to education today. It focuses on the implications of globalization for higher education. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
E-mail : sdi@unesco.org

• Synthesis of the South Asia National EFA Plans of Action. This document presents a critical review and analysis of the National EFA Plans of Action in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Available from UNESCO New Delhi.
E-mail: newdelhi@unesco.org

• ECD Policy Development and Implementation in Africa by Alan Pence. This monograph focuses on the processes involved in developing and implementing early childhood care, education and development (ECD) policies in African countries. Early Childhood and Family Policy Series, No. 9 – 2004.
Available from: sdi@unesco.org

• Interagency Consultative Group on Secondary Education Reform and Youth Affairs. This document presents the final report of the fourth meeting held from 30 June to 2 July 2004.
E-mail: sdi@unesco.org

• PROSPECTS, 130, Open File, Social Dialogue. This issue of UNESCO’s quarterly review of comparative education focuses on national and international policy dialogue on education.
Available from the International Bureau of Education. www.ibe.unesco.org ;
E-mail: b.deluermoz@ibe.unesco.org

• Making Books: A Practical Handbook for Writers of Teacher Support Materials by Andrew Clegg. This guide, produced in the context of the UNESCO/DANIDA Basic Learning Materials Initiative, examines the design and use of teacher support materials in Namibia and worldwide, and provides useful suggestions regarding content, methodology, layout and evaluation. It is a useful guide for teachers, curriculum developers, potential authors and anyone interested in producing learning materials.
Available from UNESCO Windhoek.
E-mail: windhoek@unesco.org