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Title The politics of education in developing countries : from schooling to learning / edited by Sam Hickey and Naomi Hossain.

Publication Info. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The problem of education quality in developing countries -- Researching the politics of education quality in developing countries -- Decentralization and teacher accountability -- The politics of learning reforms in Bangladesh -- The downsides of dominance -- Political transformation and education sector performance in South Africa -- The political economy of primary education reform in Cambodia -- The political drivers of quality education -- Understanding the politics of the learning crisis -- Similarities and idfferences in policy reform destinies.
Summary This book focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries. It deploys a new conceptual framework to show how the type of political settlement shaptes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 26, 2019).
Local Note Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books
Subject Education -- Political aspects -- Developing countries.
Education and state -- Developing countries.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Education. (OCoLC)fst00902499
Developing countries. (OCoLC)fst01242969
Added Author Hickey, Samuel, 1972- editor.
Hossain, Naomi, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Politics of education in developing countries. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019 019883568X 9780198835684 (OCoLC)1047550480
ISBN 9780191873201 (electronic book)
0191873209 (electronic book)
9780192572608 (electronic book)
0192572601 (electronic book)
9780198835684
019883568X
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