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Record Nr.

UNINA9910403760803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2019

ISBN

0-19-257261-X

0-19-187320-9

0-19-257260-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

370.91724

Soggetti

Education - Political aspects - Developing countries

Education and state - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.