Access, quality, and the global learning crisis : insights from Ugandan primary education / Sarah Kabay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kabay, Sarah, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state.

Education, Primary.

Private schools.

Uganda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The global learning crisis is one of the most critical challenges facing the world today. Through a case study of over 400 schools and communities in Uganda, this book presents evidence that challenges the key assumption that there is a trade-off between access and quality in improving basic education around the world.

Contents:

Cover

Access, Quality, and the Global Learning Crisis: Insights from Ugandan Primary Education

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

1: Introduction: The Global Learning Crisis and the Access vs. Quality Paradigm

2: Defining Access and Quality in International Education

Introduction

Access and Quality

From Access to Quality

Access and Quality: A Trade-Off?

3: Complexity as a Subject and Method in International Education

Systems, Complexity, and the Global Learning Crisis

Complexity and Systems as Methodology

Existing Approaches to Systems and Complexity in International Education

4: Ugandan Context and Description of Sample and Data

Uganda's Primary Education System

Sample

Quantitative Data

Qualitative Data

5: Grade Repetition and School Dropout

Grade Repetition in the United States and Europe

Grade Repetition in Sub-Saharan Africa

Repetition in Uganda

Empirical Analysis: Incidence of Grade Repetition and Dropout

Empirical Analysis: Repetition and Dropout

Empirical Analysis: Perceptions of Repetition

Beyond Wastage: Grade Repetition in a Complex Education System

6: Private Primary Schools

Research on Private Schools in Low-Income Countries

Factors Associated with Private Primary School Enrollment (Access)

Differences between Private and Public Schools (Quality)

Quantitative Measures of Quality and Access

Private School Enrollment: Descriptive Findings

Analysis of Transfer

Comparison of Children's Responses in Private and Government Schools

School Fees

Lunch

Tests

Teacher Absenteeism

Test Scores

Qualitative Results

Differences between Private and Government Schools

Private and Public: Distinction or Interdependence?.

Can the Private and Public Sectors Work Together to Improve both Access and Quality?

7: Understanding School Fees in Relation to both Access and Quality

Existing Literature on User Fees

Ugandan Context and Savings Interventions

The Savings Intervention and Research Design

Results of Secondary Analysis

The Potential and the Threat of School Fees

8: Conclusion

What Have We Learned about Education?

What Have We Learned about Complexity?

Conclusion

Technical Appendix

Grade Repetition (Chapter 4)

Private Primary Schools (Chapter 5)

School Fees (Chapter 6)

Analytic Plan

Results

References

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-265075-0

0-19-191914-4

0-19-265074-2

OCLC:

1263869463