Extending basic education to out-of-school children in Northern Ghana: What can multigrade schooling

Education for All and Multigrade Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 215-238

  Akyeampong, Albert Kwame ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4591-3_11     Document Type: Chapter

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