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Understanding the Politics of the Learning Crisis 理解学习危机的政治
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0010
L. Pritchett
This chapter reflects on the key contribution of this volume to debates around global education, and offers critical comments as to how this analysis can be further developed. Conventional analyses of education systems in developing countries typically identify what can be termed ‘proximate causes’ to poor quality education, often located within the sector itself, and on the basis of this, offer solutions that are either technocratic, or rest hope in electoral democracy. This volume offers a useful corrective to such understandings. Using the concepts of policy domains and political settlements, the framework developed here helps move beyond simplistic discourse of ‘democracy’ to examine the complexities in how government types influence outcomes in education. More work however remains to be done. The cases can only draw on limited data on education quality, we need to be cautious of claims that particular settlement ‘types’ lead to certain outcomes, and further linkages to policy and practice would be beneficial.
本章反映了本卷对围绕全球教育的辩论的关键贡献,并就如何进一步发展这一分析提供了关键的评论。对发展中国家教育系统的传统分析通常会确定导致教育质量低下的“直接原因”,这些原因通常位于教育部门本身,并在此基础上提供解决方案,这些解决方案要么是技术官僚的,要么是寄希望于选举民主。本书对这种理解提供了有益的纠正。使用政策领域和政治解决方案的概念,这里开发的框架有助于超越简单的“民主”话语,以检查政府类型如何影响教育结果的复杂性。然而,还有更多的工作要做。这些案例只能利用有限的教育质量数据,我们需要谨慎对待特定解决方案“类型”导致某些结果的说法,并且进一步将政策和实践联系起来将是有益的。
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引用次数: 9
Researching the Politics of Education Quality in Developing Countries 发展中国家教育质量政治研究
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0002
S. Hickey, N. Hossain
Politics is increasingly recognized to shape education outcomes in the global South, but there is little agreement on which forms of politics really matter, or how to conceptualize or investigate them. This chapter outlines the main approaches and findings from the existing literature, before setting out a new framework for analysis, organized around the ‘domains of power’ framework. This brings together analysis of the overall organization of power within the society (the political settlement) with political analysis of the education sector (or policy domain). The chapter sets out the methodological approach that was deployed to undertake the research presented in this volume, explaining the comparative case study methodology and the focus on power relations, the role of ideas, the significance of the sector within the ordering of power, policy coalitions and legacies of past policies, and elite commitment and state capacity to deliver education quality reforms.
在全球发展中国家,人们越来越认识到政治对教育成果的影响,但对于哪些形式的政治真正重要,或者如何概念化或调查它们,人们几乎没有达成一致。本章概述了现有文献的主要方法和发现,然后围绕“权力领域”框架组织了一个新的分析框架。这将社会中整体权力组织的分析(政治解决)与教育部门(或政策领域)的政治分析结合在一起。本章阐述了本卷研究的方法论,解释了比较案例研究方法和对权力关系的关注,思想的作用,部门在权力排序中的重要性,政策联盟和过去政策的遗产,以及精英承诺和国家能力,以实现教育质量改革。
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引用次数: 3
The Politics of Learning Reforms in Bangladesh 孟加拉国学习改革的政治
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0004
N. Hossain, M. Hassan, Muhammad Ashikur Rahman, K. S. Ali, Md. Sajidul Islam
Why has Bangladesh failed to raise quality in basic education after it so successfully expanded school provision? This chapter explores the politics of both Bangladesh’s successful expansionary, and its lagged efforts to tackle the persistently poor quality of basic education. Using a political settlements lens, it shows how the competitive but clientelistic nature of Bangladesh’s politics shaped policies to expand schooling provision, without attending to learning—and in particular without addressing teacher performance. It analyses the elite consensus on mass education and the design of the Third Primary Education Development Programme (2011–15), tracing the analysis down through the education administration system to how schools themselves implement learning reforms. It concludes that the state has started to take learning seriously, but the political impetus for policies to hold teachers accountable for their performance lacks the wide support of the successful expansionary drive, so that any progress is slow.
为什么孟加拉国在如此成功地扩大学校供应后,却未能提高基础教育的质量?本章探讨了孟加拉国成功扩张的政治因素,以及它在解决基础教育质量持续低下问题上的滞后努力。从政治解决的角度来看,它展示了孟加拉国政治的竞争和庇护性质如何影响了扩大教育提供的政策,而没有关注学习,特别是没有关注教师的表现。它分析了精英对大众教育的共识和第三次小学教育发展计划(2011-15)的设计,通过教育行政系统追踪分析学校本身如何实施学习改革。它的结论是,国家已经开始认真对待学习,但政治上的推动政策让教师对他们的表现负责缺乏成功的扩张动力的广泛支持,因此任何进展都是缓慢的。
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引用次数: 2
The Problem of Education Quality in Developing Countries 发展中国家的教育质量问题
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0001
N. Hossain, S. Hickey
The universalization of basic education was set to be one of the great policy successes of the twentieth century, yet millions are still unenrolled, and many of those who attended school learned little. The ‘learning crisis’ now dominates the global education policy agenda, yet little is understood of why education quality reforms have had so little success compared to earlier expansionary reforms. This chapter sets out the rationale for this book, which is to explore how the nature of the political settlement or distribution of power between contending social groups in a given country shapes efforts to get learning reforms on the policy agenda, how they are implemented, and what difference they make to what children learn. It discusses debates about the sources and determinants of the learning crisis, examining its extent and nature and providing a rationale for the key themes the book takes up in subsequent theoretical, empirical, and comparative chapters.
基础教育的普及本应是20世纪最伟大的政策成就之一,但仍有数百万人没有入学,许多上过学的人学到的东西很少。“学习危机”现在主导着全球教育政策议程,然而,与早期的扩张性改革相比,为什么教育质量改革取得的成功如此之少,人们却知之甚少。本章阐述了本书的基本原理,即探讨一个特定国家中相互竞争的社会群体之间的政治解决或权力分配的性质如何影响将学习改革纳入政策议程的努力,如何实施这些改革,以及它们对儿童的学习有何影响。它讨论了关于学习危机的来源和决定因素的辩论,检查其程度和性质,并为本书在随后的理论,经验和比较章节中所采用的关键主题提供了基本原理。
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引用次数: 12
The Political Economy of Education Quality Initiatives in Uganda 乌干达教育质量倡议的政治经济学
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0008
Anne Mette Kjær, Nansozi K. Muwanga
Uganda has seen a significant increase in access to primary education since 1996 but without an increase in quality learning. We show that there are weak political incentives to undertake reforms to enhance quality learning, for three reasons: (i) A system of decentralized rent management renders quality improvements arbitrary; (ii) There is a legacy of fee-free education playing an important part in the electoral appeal of the National Resistance Movement for rural voters; (iii) The pressure to push through education quality-enhancing reforms, whether from civil society, powerful interest groups, or parliament, is too weak to overpower incentives to address the learning crisis head-on. At the local level, the school administrations in high-performing schools were able to draw upon resourceful networks in order to mobilize local council funds and parents’ contributions, in spite of the official policy of free education.
自1996年以来,乌干达接受初等教育的机会显著增加,但高质量的学习却没有增加。我们表明,进行改革以提高学习质量的政治动机薄弱,原因有三:(i)分散的租金管理系统使质量改进变得武断;免费教育的传统在全国抵抗运动对农村选民的选举呼吁中起着重要作用;(三)推动提高教育质量改革的压力,无论是来自民间社会、强大的利益集团还是议会,都太弱,无法压倒正面解决学习危机的激励机制。在地方一级,成绩好的学校的学校行政部门能够利用资源丰富的网络,以便调动地方委员会的资金和家长的捐款,尽管官方的政策是免费教育。
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引用次数: 4
Similarities and Differences in Policy Reform Destinies 政策改革命运的异同
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0011
M. Grindle
This chapter offers an alternative reading that supports most of the conclusion but which draws closer attention to the critical issue of implementation. In many respects the six country cases focused on have followed a similar path in education policy: all expended significant effort increasing coverage in line with an international agenda and often national project; all came to recognize the limits of this for quality outcomes; and all subsequently attempted to implement quality-oriented reforms. They differ, however, in the success of this implementation and the subsequent outcomes of these latter reforms. With quality being far harder to deliver than access, these reforms exposed the fault lines within their political settlements. Political constituencies and actors within the sector resisted them, and technical limitations and influence of policy legacies became evident. Part of the policy agenda that emerges from this is finding ways to counteract these political vulnerabilities, for example, by focusing on sub-national political dynamics, or by linking education quality to a national project of development.
本章提供了另一种解读,支持大部分结论,但更密切地关注执行的关键问题。在许多方面,重点关注的六个国家的情况在教育政策方面走了类似的道路:所有国家都根据国际议程和往往是国家项目作出了重大努力来扩大覆盖面;所有人都认识到这对高质量结果的限制;所有这些国家随后都试图实施以质量为导向的改革。然而,它们在这一实施的成功和后一项改革的后续成果方面有所不同。由于提供高质量的教育远比获得教育难得多,这些改革暴露了他们政治解决方案中的断层线。政治选区和部门内的行动者抵制它们,技术限制和政策遗产的影响变得明显。由此产生的部分政策议程是寻找消除这些政治脆弱性的方法,例如,通过关注地方政治动态,或将教育质量与国家发展项目联系起来。
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引用次数: 1
Decentralization and Teacher Accountability 权力下放与教师问责制
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0003
E. Ampratwum, Mohammed S. Awal, F. Oduro
Despite series of reforms designed to improve the basic education system in Ghana, the quality of education remains low. This chapter uses a political settlement analysis to explore why this is the case. Focusing on the issue of teacher accountability and performance, we argue that a key reform—decentralization—remains a highly contested process. The current system generates insufficient incentives for effective forms of policy implementation and accountability to emerge at scale. The evidence suggest that improving educational quality depends on reform-minded coalitions made up of state and non-state actors, and a stable political settlement at the district level. We conclude that where good practice is experienced, it is as a result of efforts by these coalitions to devise and enforce local-level solutions to local problems.
尽管加纳进行了一系列旨在改善基础教育体系的改革,但教育质量仍然很低。本章使用政治解决分析来探讨为什么会出现这种情况。聚焦于教师问责制和绩效问题,我们认为一个关键的改革——分权——仍然是一个高度争议的过程。目前的制度没有产生足够的激励,不足以促使有效形式的政策执行和问责制大规模出现。证据表明,提高教育质量取决于由国家和非国家行为体组成的具有改革意识的联盟,以及地区一级稳定的政治解决方案。我们的结论是,在有良好实践经验的地方,这是这些联盟努力设计和执行地方问题的地方一级解决方案的结果。
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引用次数: 2
Political Transformation and Education Sector Performance in South Africa 南非的政治转型和教育部门绩效
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0006
Brian Levy, R. Cameron, U. Hoadley, V. Naidoo
This chapter explores how political and institutional constraints influenced education policymaking and implementation in South Africa at national, provincial, and school levels. Stark differences between the Eastern and Western Cape provinces offer a natural experiment for exploring how context matters. The Eastern Cape’s socio-economic, political, and institutional legacy resulted in a low-level equilibrium trap—one where multiple political patronage networks were mirrored by a factionalized, fragmented bureaucracy. The Western Cape, by contrast, enjoyed a more supportive environment for the operation of public bureaucracy. However, bureaucracy need not be destiny. The research also found that strong hierarchy can result in formal compliance and a low-level equilibrium of mediocrity. Participatory school-level governance potentially can improve outcomes. Whether this potential is realized depends on the relative strength of developmentally oriented and predatory actors, with the outcomes not foreordained by local context, but contingent and cumulative.
本章探讨政治和制度制约因素如何影响南非国家、省和学校层面的教育政策制定和实施。东开普省和西开普省之间的巨大差异为探索环境的重要性提供了一个自然的实验。东开普省的社会经济、政治和制度遗产导致了一个低水平的平衡陷阱——在这个陷阱中,多个政治赞助网络被一个派系化、碎片化的官僚机构所反映。相比之下,西开普省对公共官僚机构的运作有着更有利的环境。然而,官僚主义不一定是命运。研究还发现,强烈的等级制度会导致正式的服从和低级的平庸平衡。参与式学校管理可能会改善结果。这种潜力能否实现取决于以发展为导向和掠夺性行为者的相对实力,其结果不是由当地环境预先决定的,而是偶然的和累积的。
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引用次数: 1
The Downsides of Dominance 优势的缺点
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0005
T. Williams
Since the end of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda’s government has charted an audacious development project aimed at social and economic transformation. Formal education has featured prominently in this project. It has introduced policies to improve enrolment at the primary and secondary level. But recent evidence has shown that many students failed to meet basic reading and arithmetic standards. Dropout, repetition, completion, and transition rates have not fared well. Given the ruling party’s commitment to delivering development, why has it not introduced reforms that have improved educational standards? This chapter draws from policy analysis and fieldwork across two districts to explore the interaction between Rwanda’s political settlement and the education policy domain, to shed light on its surprising inability to improve learning. This failure is surprising because the Rwandan political elite has demonstrated both capacity and willingness to undertake and implement reforms it has deemed necessary to deliver development in other sectors.
自1994年种族灭绝结束以来,卢旺达政府制定了一项大胆的发展计划,旨在实现社会和经济转型。正规教育在这个项目中占有突出地位。政府出台了提高小学和中学入学率的政策。但最近的证据表明,许多学生未能达到基本的阅读和算术标准。辍学率、重复率、完成率和转换率都不太理想。既然执政党承诺要实现发展,为什么不推行提高教育水平的改革呢?本章借鉴了两个地区的政策分析和实地调查,探讨了卢旺达的政治解决方案与教育政策领域之间的相互作用,揭示了其在改善学习方面令人惊讶的无能。这一失败令人惊讶,因为卢旺达政治精英已显示出进行和执行其认为在其他部门实现发展所必需的改革的能力和意愿。
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引用次数: 2
Identifying the Political Drivers of Quality Education 确定素质教育的政治驱动因素
Pub Date : 2019-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198835684.003.0009
S. Hickey, N. Hossain, David Jackman
This chapter consolidates findings from the country cases to offer insight into the politics of education reform. It argues that the education sector presents different resources and incentives to political elites, and as such, the political settlement has a direct bearing on the potential for, and delivery of, reforms. At a national level, political dominance can enable elites to overcome vested interests, but may prevent the emergence of coalitions for learning reforms. More competitive polities are more vulnerable to short-termism and vested interests. At the local level, an absence of political dominance combined with decentralisation can lead to innovative solutions to educational challenges. The strategic implications of the analysis presented include that learning reforms should be closely aligned to the dynamics of the political settlement, and underscore the importance of coalition building. Analysis should be sensitive to the sub-national political dynamics, and recognize the value of ‘best-fit’ local solutions.
本章整合了来自国家案例的调查结果,以提供对教育改革政治的洞察。报告认为,教育部门为政治精英提供了不同的资源和激励,因此,政治解决方案直接关系到改革的潜力和实施。在国家层面上,政治主导可以使精英们克服既得利益,但可能会阻碍学习改革联盟的出现。更具竞争性的政策更容易受到短期主义和既得利益的影响。在地方一级,缺乏政治主导加上权力下放可以为教育挑战带来创新的解决方案。所提出的分析的战略意义包括,学习改革应与政治解决的动态紧密结合,并强调建立联盟的重要性。分析应对地方政治动态敏感,并认识到“最合适”的地方解决方案的价值。
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