The politics of education in developing countries : from schooling to learning / edited by Sam Hickey, Naomi Hossain.
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TextSeries: Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191873201 (ebook) :Subject(s): Education -- Political aspects -- Developing countries | Education and state -- Developing countriesAdditional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification: 379.091724 LOC classification: LC98Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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. This book 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.
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Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes index.
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. This book 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.
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