Education Outcomes and Poverty in the South

A Reassessment
Herausgeber: Colclough, Christopher

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415582025
• ISBN-10: 0415582024
• Artikelnr.: 32791238

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction2. Girls' Schooling and Women's Autonomy in South Asia:
Revisiting Old Debates with New Data from India and Pakistan3. 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 Pakistan5. Skill
Acquisition and its Impact upon Lives and Livelihoods in Ghana, India, and
Pakistan6. Economic Returns to Schooling and Cognitive Skills - An Analysis
of India and Pakistan7. Changing Forms of Provision and Impact on Schooling
Outcomes in Ghana and Pakistan8. 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