Improving the performance of children in primary schools in Africa, paying specific attention to barriers facing girls.
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Learning, Practice, and Mastery of Literacy at primary schools by poor children in rural areas

 
  

June Edition of questFocus e-newsletter. Click here to read

 

What is QUEST (Quality Education for Social Transformation) 1998-2006

QUEST was a research, intervention and dissemination program supported by The Rockefeller Foundation on the quality of primary education in Africa.

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Expanding access to a quality primary education provides the greatest opportunity to the majority of children in Africa to become informed, articulate, and active citizens. Over the past decade, many African governments have increased public resources for education and implemented policies to expand primary education. Unprecedented numbers of children, especially girls from poor and rural households, have enrolled in school for the first time.

The process of democratic social transformation requires citizens who are able to express their own needs; able to demand the provision of real policy options; and able to make considered decisions and choices around those options.

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QUEST was focused on three (3) main components:

1. Improving the capacity of teachers to help rural children master literacy in English. read more  

2. Improving teacher knowledge on sexual maturation in order to encourage a supportive curricula and environment at school so as to enhance the retention of girls. read more 

3. Disseminating the findings of QUEST sponsored projects, particularly to policy makers. read more

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