OPEN SCHOOLING: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES Richard …

OPEN schooling : ISSUES AND CHALLENGESR ichard SiaciwenaDirectorate of Distance EducationThe University of Zambiae-mail: government in the world has an obligation to provide education to all its citizens, chiefly becauseeducation is not only a human right but is also a critical factor in economic development and povertyreduction. In particular basic (primary and secondary) education helps reduce poverty by increasing theproductivity of the poor, by reducing fertility and improving health and by equipping people with the skillsthey need to participate in the economy and in society . (World Bank, 1995: 1).Many governments have developed a variety of strategies for developing education and training include experimentation with innovative approaches and technologies such as open and distancelearning. In particular the challenge of implementing goals for universalisation of primary education and theneed to increase access to secondary education has contributed to the development and expansion of paper outlines the development of open schooling , describes examples of open schooling and discusses therole of open schooling in increasing access to quality basic education especially to out of school schooling : ISSUES and challengesDevelopment of open schoolingAs Phillips (1994) stated, open schooling means different things to different people but, in general, it concerns using alternative and usually less resource-based approaches which charact

OPEN SCHOOLING: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES Richard Siaciwena Directorate of Distance Education The University of Zambia e-mail: RSiachwena@dde.unza.zm Abstract Every government in the world has an obligation to provide education to all its citizens, chiefly because

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