Low-fee Private Schooling and Poverty in Developing Countries
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- ISBN 9781350088245
- Weight: 549g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Low-fee Private Schooling and Poverty in Developing Countries, Joanna Härmä draws on primary research carried out in sub-Saharan African countries and in India to show how the poor are being failed by both government and private schools. The primary research data and experiences are combined with additional examples from around the world to offer a wide perspective on the issue of marketized education, low-fee private schooling and government systems. Härmä offers a pragmatic approach to a divisive issue and an ideologically-driven debate and shows how the well-intentioned international drive towards ‘education for all’ is being encouraged and even imposed long before some countries have prepared the teachers and developed the systems needed to implement it successfully. Suggesting that governments need to take a much more constructive approach to the issue, Härmä argues for a greater acceptance of the challenges, abandoning ideological positions and a scaling back of ambition in the hope of laying stronger foundations for educational development.
Joanna Härmä is Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, UK; Honorary Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, and Teaching Fellow at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK.
