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This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.
Sommario
Foreword
Preface
Part One: Diagnostics: Chronic Quality Deficit in South Asia’s Basic Education
Introduction to Part One
1. Growth, Wellbeing and Basic Education
2. From "Education for All" to SDG4
3. Primary School Performance in Reading and Mathematics
4. Why Low Quality Persists in South Asia’s School Systems
5. The Sri Lanka Exception and Its Stubborn Challenges
Part Two: Teachers: The Pivot of Educational Change
Introduction to Part Two
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 Change
Introduction to Part Three
11. Private Schools and Public Good
12. Toward a New Education Governance Paradigm
13. Political Economy of Education - Leveraging Change
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John Richards is an economist and a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, and a scholar-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute.
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This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.
