The Politics and Governance of Basic Education - A Tale of Two South African Provinces (Hardcover)

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. All over the world, economic inclusion has risen to the top of the development discourse. A well-performing education system is central to achieving inclusive development - but the challenge of improving educational outcomes has proven to be unexpectedly difficult. Access to education has increased, but quality remains low, with weaknesses in governance comprising an important part of the explanation. The Politics and Governance of Basic Education explores the balance between hierarchical and horizontal institutional arrangements for the public provision of basic education. Using the vivid example of South Africa, a country that had ambitious goals at the outset of its transition from apartheid to democracy, it explores how the interaction of politics and institutions affects educational outcomes. By examining lessons learned from how South Africa failed to achieve many of its goals, it constructs an innovative alternative strategy for making process, combining practical steps to achieve incremental gains to re-orient the system towards learning.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2018
Editors:	Brian Levy (Professor of the Practice of International Development, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA and Academic Director, Graduate School of Development, Policy, and Practice, University of Cape Town, South Africa) • Robert Cameron (Professor of Public Administration) • Ursula Hoadley (Associate Professor) • Vinothan Naidoo (Senior Lecturer)
Dimensions:	241 x 163 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-882405-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > Local government policies
LSN:	0-19-882405-X
Barcode:	9780198824053

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