Full Description
This book offers in-depth analyses of how education interacts with social inequality in Southern contexts. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks, it presents new analyses of existing knowledge and new empirical data which define the challenges and possibilities of successful educational reform. It is a tribute to the work of the late Christopher Colclough, who, as a leading figure in education and international development, played a key role in the global fight for education for all children.
The book critically engages with international evidence of educational access, retention and outcomes, offering new understandings of how social inequalities currently facilitate, mediate or restrict educational opportunities. It exposes the continuing influence of wealth and regional inequalities and caste and gendered social structures. Researchers in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Uganda highlight how the aspirations of families living in poverty remain unfilled by poor-quality education and low economic opportunities and how schools and teachers currently address issues of gender, disability and diversity. The book highlights a range of new priorities for research and identifies some necessary strategies for education reform, policy approaches and school practice, if educational equality for all children is to be achieved.
The book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars, educational practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of economics, politics and sociology of education, international education, poverty research and international development.
The Foreword, Chapters 1, 6, 7, and 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429293467 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license (Foreword, Chapters 1, 6, and 12) and a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (Chapter 7).
Contents
FOREWORD: A tribute to Chris Colclough
Sir Richard Jolly
Chapter 1
Introduction.
Pauline Rose, Madeleine Arnot, Roger Jeffery and Nidhi Singal
PART 1: THE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM
Chapter 2
The changing pattern of returns to education: What impact will this have on earning inequality?
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Chapter 3
Unequal access to education: Accounting for change and counting costs.
Keith M. Lewin
Chapter 4
Education for all in India and Sri Lanka: The drivers and interests shaping egalitarian reforms.
Angela W. Little
Chapter 5
Public - private partnerships in education: do they offer an equitable solution to education in India and Pakistan?
Monazza Aslam and Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
Chapter 6
The influence of politics on girls' education in Ethiopia.
Pauline Rose, Louise Yorke and Alula Pankhurst
PART 2: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ADDRESSING INEQUALITIES THROUGH EDUCATION
Chapter 7
Overriding social inequality: Educational aspirations versus the material realities of rural families in Pakistan.
Arif Naveed
Chapter 8
Confronting social inequality through fertility change in Punjab, Pakistan: The role of girls' schooling.
Feyza Bhatti and Roger Jeffery
Chapter 9
Teenage pregnancy and social inequality: An impediment to achieving schooling for all in Uganda
Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi and Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo
Chapter 10
Complementary basic education: Parental and learner experiences and choices in Ghana's northern regions.
Leslie Casely-Hayford with Adom Baisie Ghartey and Justice Agyei-Quartey
Chapter 11
Addressing dilemmas of difference: Teachers' strategies to include children with disabilities in rural primary schools in India.
Nidhi Singal
Chapter 12
Social distance, teachers' beliefs and teaching practices in a context of social disadvantage: evidence from India and Pakistan.
Anuradha De and Rabea Malik
