Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

The Politics of Education in Developing Countries

From Schooling to Learning

Av Sam Hickey, Naomi Hossain

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Beskrivning

Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also that educational outcomes in developing countries are shaped by political as well as socio-economic and other factors. The Politics of Education in Developing Countries focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.The problem of education quality is serious across the Global South. The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning deploys a new conceptual framework-the domains of power approach-to show how the type of political settlement shapes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes. The domain of education is prone to being highly politicized, as it offers an important source of both rents and legitimacy to political elites, and can be central to paradigmatic elite ideas around nation-building and modernity. Of particular importance is the relative strength of coalitions pushing for access as against those focused on issues of higher quality education. This book concludes with a discussion of entry points and strategies for thinking and working politically in relation to education quality reforms and critical commentaries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2019-03-22
Mått: 164 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt: 516 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 256
Förlag: OUP OXFORD
ISBN: 9780198835684

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Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development in the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, and Research Director of the DFID-UK-funded Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre. His recent work on the politics of development has been published in African Affairs, Journal of Development Studies, and World Development. He has edited or co-edited six collections, including The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2015, with Kunal Sen and Badru Bukenya). Naomi Hossain is a political sociologist and Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on the state-society relations that make pro-poor development possible, with a focus on the provision of food security, mass education, and social protection. She is the author of The Aid Lab: Understanding Bangladesh's Unexpected Success (OUP, 2017).

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Scholars have for years lamented the scarcity of research on politics in education, especially in developing countries. Hickey and Hossain bring together a volume that makes a major contribution to filling that gap. Brimming with insights, both practical and theoretical, this book will be of keen interest to anyone concerned with the complex and contentious politics of improving education or enhancing public services generally

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