Education Outcomes and Poverty: A Reassessment

ISBN-13: 9780415582025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Christopher Colclough

Opis

What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty in the developing world? This book arises out of a five year, DFID-funded programme of research examining the impact of education on the lives and livelihoods of people in developing countries, particularly those living in poorer areas and from poorer households. Based on highly innovative research that addressed common research questions across four countries in Africa and South Asia, the book presents new theoretical and empirical knowledge that will help to improve education and poverty reduction strategies in developing countries, through an enhanced recognition of education's actual and potential role.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Autonomy in South Asia: Revisiting Old Debates with New Data from India and Pakistan  3. Schooling, Rights and Urban Poverty: Young People's Narratives of Citizenship in Two Sub-Saharan Cities.  4. Increased Expectations, Unrealised Gains: Education Outcomes for Young People with Disabilities in India and Pakistan  5. Skill Acquisition and its Impact upon Lives and Livelihoods in Ghana, India, and Pakistan  6. Economic Returns to Schooling and Cognitive Skills – An Analysis of India and Pakistan  7. Changing Forms of Provision and Impact on Schooling Outcomes in Ghana and Pakistan  8. The Practice of Partnership: Aid and Education Policy in India and Kenya  9. Outcomes Reassessed.  Annex 1: Qualitative Methods in the RECOUP Projects.  Annex 2: The RECOUP Household Surveys

O autorze

Christopher Colclough is Commonwealth Professor of Education and Development, University of Cambridge, UK, and Director of RECOUP, 2005–2010.