James Tooley, David Longfield

Education, War and Peace (eBook, ePUB)

The Surprising Success of Private Schools in War-Torn Countries

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The authors of Education, War & Peace travelled to Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Sudan to conduct research on education in these conflict-affected countries. They uncovered an inspiring story of entrepreneurs stepping into the breach and providing low-cost private schooling to large numbers of children in areas where government was not working well and basic infrastructure had been destroyed. For-profit schools also expanded quickly to soak up educational demand once the conflicts were over. The fees were affordable to families on the poverty line and the children did better academically than those in government schools. Yet international agencies continue to promote government-run schools, even though state education has been a major source of both conflict and corruption in these countries. This groundbreaking study advocates a different approach. Low-cost private schools should be welcomed by policymakers as a means of providing high quality educational opportunities for all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: London Publishing Partnership
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780255367486
• Artikelnr.: 49969024

Autorenporträt

James Tooley is Professor of Education Policy at Newcastle University and author of The Beautiful Tree (Penguin), winner of the 2010 Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Prize. His ground-breaking research on low-cost private education was awarded gold prize in the first IFC/FT Private Sector Development Competition, and was profiled in an American PBS documentary alongside the work of Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus. Building on his research, Tooley has dedicated himself to creating models of innovation in low-cost private education. He has co-founded three chains of low-cost schools: Omega Schools, Ghana, Cadmus Education, India and Cadmus Academies, Honduras. He is patron of the Association of Formidable Educational Development, an association of 5,000 low-cost private schools in Nigeria with nearly 1 million children, and chief mentor of the National Independent Schools Alliance (India). He has held positions at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester; his first job was teaching mathematics in Zimbabwe.