The politics of education in developing countries : : from schooling to learning / / edited by Sam Hickey, Naomi Hossain.

• Superior document: Oxford scholarship online
• TeilnehmendeR: Hickey, Samuel, 1972-; Hossain, Naomi,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Notes: 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.

Table of Contents

The problem of education quality in developing countries -- Researching the politics of education quality in developing countries -- Decentralization and teacher accountability -- The politics of learning reforms in Bangladesh -- The downsides of dominance -- Political transformation and education sector performance in South Africa -- The political economy of primary education reform in Cambodia -- The political drivers of quality education -- Understanding the politics of the learning crisis -- Similarities and idfferences in policy reform destinies.