Sarah Kabay

Access, Quality, and the Global Learning Crisis

Insights from Ugandan Primary Education

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The global learning crisis is one of the most critical challenges facing the world today. Through a case study of over 400 schools and communities in Uganda, this book presents evidence that challenges the key assumption that there is a trade-off between access and quality in improving basic education around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780192896865
• ISBN-10: 0192896865
• Artikelnr.: 61598716

Autorenporträt

Sarah Kabay is an education researcher focused on early childhood and basic education. She works to design and evaluate educational interventions and to understand the contexts in which they take place, the characteristics of education systems, and the perspectives and experiences of different actors within those systems. She is particularly interested in mixed-methods work, such as the integration of qualitative research and randomized evaluations. Kabay is the Education Program Director at Innovations for Poverty Action. She has a BA in Poverty and Development from Yale University and a PhD in International Education from New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: The Global Learning Crisis and the Access vs. Quality Paradigm
2: Defining Access and Quality in International Education
3: Complexity as a Subject and Method in International Education
4: Ugandan Context and Description of Sample and Data
5: Grade Repetition and School Dropout
6: Private Primary Schools
7: Understanding School Fees in Relation to both Access and Quality
8: Conclusion
Technical Appendix