The Political Economy of Education in South Asia : Fighting Poverty, Inequality, and Exclusion / John Richards [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, John, 1690-1778, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Appendices

Foreword

Preface

Biographies

Part One: Diagnostics: Chronic Quality Deficit in South Asia’s Basic Education

Introduction

1 Growth, Well-Being, and Basic Education

2 From “Education for All” to SDG4

3 Assessing Primary School Performance in Reading and Mathematics

4 Why Does Low Quality Persist in South Asian Schools?

5 The Sri Lanka Exception and Its Stubborn Challenges

Part Two: Teachers: The Pivot of Educational Change

6 The Education Workforce – Numbers and More

7 Who Should Be Teachers – Features of a High-Quality Education Workforce

8 How Teachers Can Be Professionals – Preparing and Orienting the Education Workforce

9 Governance and Management of the Education Workforce

10 Ethics and Values Education and Teachers

Part Three: The Political Economy of Educational Reform

11 Private Schools and Public Good

12 Toward a New Education Governance Paradigm

13 Political Economy of Education – Leveraging Change

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Richards, John The Political Economy of Education in South Asia

ISBN:

1-4875-1757-2

1-4875-1758-0

OCLC:

1267694688