Introduction
This book brings together diverse yet practical perspectives to ensure that all children and adolescents, particularly those in the Global South, are improving their foundational learning, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic around the world.
In recent decades, societies and their governments have made enormous efforts to ensure that all children and adolescents receive the education they need for life-long learning. However, in the twenty-first century, we have learned that it is not enough to go to school. Before the pandemic, we knew that a significant percentage of children were not attending school and that many of those who did attend school were not learning the minimum to at least continue their educational trajectories. Therefore, 'schooling ain't learning', as said Pritchett in 2013.
School closures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the situation. In many African, Latin American, Caribbean and Asian countries, schools were closed for months or even years. As a result, it was estimated that decades of effort to get children into schools were lost. Moreover, these system-wide closures generated learning loss in practically the entire world. The losses were disproportionately higher in the Global South. Thus, the learning crisis in countries like India worsened after 2020.4
Due to this situation, the work being done by more than 17 organisations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America and those that form the People's Action for Learning Network (PAL Network) has become relevant. PAL's mission is "To generate evidence through assessment and action to inform, influence and improve children's learning'. One of the actions to fulfil this mission is to systematise the experiences and generate evidence about PAL member organisations' actions to ensure fundamental learning.
This book incorporates the reflections and works of educational professionals, academics, and activists from the Global South into a discussion on education. The various chapters in this book pose some relevant questions: How to ensure fundamental learning? How to recover and accelerate it in a post-pandemic scenario? What were the emerging actions when schools closed their doors? How to promote learning in native languages? How to take advantage of not only new technologies but also of the 'old' methods? How to scale up the
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