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    Lean Pedagogy: Using Lean Thinking to Improve Student Results and Optimise Classroom Costs
    Lean Pedagogy: Using Lean Thinking to Improve Student Results and Optimise Classroom Costs
    Lean Pedagogy: Using Lean Thinking to Improve Student Results and Optimise Classroom Costs
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    Lean Pedagogy: Using Lean Thinking to Improve Student Results and Optimise Classroom Costs

    By Benjamin Chibaira

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    In this book, the author challenges the status quo in schools with an emphasis on students' results, and the associated costs, and curriculum lead times for achieving these results. Policy and curriculum changes, as well as funding initiatives, have been the most common interventions for the prominent systemic issues faced by schools. However, these have proven neither effective nor sustainable in the long term . In addition, education reforms have barely considered the very processes that influence the classroom outcomes.

    In this book, the author proposes a process focused pedagogy based on tried and tested Lean principles and tools in order to achieve the elusive classrooms outcomes. Lean is a process-focused methodology, which considers any expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of customer value as wasteful, and thus targets it for elimination. "Value" is described as any action for which a customer would be willing to pay for. Lean Thinking has roots in the automotive industry although it is now widely used in both the private and public sectors. In spite of Lean's successes in industry, it has barely made inroads into education and thus this inspired a case study to test it application in a classroom. Through the application of such, improvements were achieved in both the student's results and the time it took to complete the curriculum.

    The role of this book is to show why Lean Thinking in schools is an important alternative in the pursuit for improving results, costs, and curriculum lead times. This book will appeal to different groups of readers including educators, students, school governing bodies, parent's school improvement specialists, Lean practitioners, general readers, as well as schools which are ready to pursue excellence through continuous improvement tools.

    A simplified version of the checklist used to assess a school's status in its readiness for a Lean intervention is in provided. A typical timeline for planning purposes for schools wishing to pursue this Lean journey is also provided . Further, more detailed implementation manuals are available through Lean Fundo
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJul 31, 2015
    ISBN9781483559704
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    Lean Pedagogy - Benjamin Chibaira

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    CHAPTER 1: THE EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

    Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ∼ Nelson Mandela

    Educational institutions are vehicles for maintaining, redressing, and transforming cultural and socio-economic interests, many of which are embedded in school curriculums. Achieving certain desired social and economic outcomes through an effective curriculum increases the likelihood that individuals will emerge from an educational system better suited for tertiary education and/or employment.² As asserted by Abraham Lincoln, The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government [society] tomorrow. ³

    When deciding upon the desired outcomes of an education system, a relevant curriculum is developed and implemented in schools, with the expectation that students will attain the desired output (as illustrated below in Figure 1.1).

    Figure 1.1: Flow of inputs to outputs of an education system

    Education is now widely regarded as a universal human right, and in many countries, education consumes more money and employs more people than other public institutions. Education systems also have more significant influence on citizens’ values, skills, as well as work and leisure habits. Populations that are more educated show greater prosperity through higher levels of scientific innovation and military prowess. ¹There is also a correlation between the percentage of a population that advances to higher education and that country’s overall gross domestic product (GDP).⁴ Quite astutely, John F. Kennedy once noted that, The progress of a nation could not be swifter than the progress of its education.

    ISSUES IN SCHOOL SYSTEMS

    Despite education’s clear social and economic importance, schooling systems in many countries fail to meet their stakeholders’ needs. Chief among chronic deficiencies are poor student results, with fewer students completing the minimum recommended years in schools, and inadequate budgets which prevent the achievement of the intended objectives.⁵

    International reports on the comparative standing of pupil attainment in mathematics show that the problem with quality of results actually begins in lower grades.⁶ Deficiencies that go uncorrected in the early stages of schooling are carried forward to subsequent grades, thus creating higher-level defects that are far more difficult to reverse. For example, in some countries the average student performance in mathematics drops from about 60% in the first year of schooling to 13% eight years

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