The Politics and Governance of Basic Education

A Tale of Two South African Provinces

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvBrian Levy,Robert Cameron,Ursula Hoadley,Vinothan Naidoo,Wash Levy, Brian (Professor of the Practice of International Development, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA and Academic Director, Graduate School of Development, Policy, and Practice, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Professor of the Practice of International Development, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University,South Africa) Cameron, Robert (Professor of Public Administration, Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town,South Africa) Hoadley, Ursula (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Cape Town,South Africa) Naidoo, Vinothan (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. All over the world, economic inclusion has risen to the top of the development discourse. A well-performing education system is central to achieving inclusive development - but the challenge of improving educational outcomes has proven to be unexpectedly difficult. Access to education has increased, but quality remains low, with weaknesses in governance comprising an important part of the explanation. The Politics and Governance of Basic Education explores the balance between hierarchical and horizontal institutional arrangements for the public provision of basic education. Using the vivid example of South Africa, a country that had ambitious goals at the outset of its transition from apartheid to democracy, it explores how the interaction of politics and institutions affects educational outcomes. By examining lessons learned from how South Africa failed to achieve many of its goals, it constructs an innovative alternative strategy for making process, combining practical steps to achieve incremental gains to re-orient the system towards learning.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-21
Mått163 x 241 x 24 mm
Vikt624 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198824053

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Brian Levy is Professor of the Practice of International Development, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC and Academic Director, Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice, University of Cape Town. He worked at the World Bank from 1989 to 2012. His books include Working with the Grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Building State Capacity in Africa (World Bank Institute, 2004). Robert Cameron is Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. He has published around ninety journal articles and book chapters on local government, public administration and public service reform. He is a Senior Fellow at the Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, and was a member of the South African Municipal Demarcation Board (1999-2004) which demarcated non-racial local government boundaries for the democratic South Africa.Ursula Hoadley is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. Her extensive published research explores the relation between education and social stratification and the differential social and academic outcomes engendered through educational processes, with a focus on pedagogy, curriculum, and school organization at the primary level, Ursula participates in multiple professional education associations, and boards, including South Africa's Ministerial Review Committee of 2009 which led to the revision of the outcomes-based national curriculum. She is the author of Pedagogy in poverty: 20 years of curriculum reform in South Africa (Routledge, 2017).Vinothan Naidoo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. His research spans institutional transformation and public sector reform, policy co-ordination and implementation, political-administrative relations, and inter-governmental relations. Recent publications have dealt with critical appraisals of public management reform in South Africa, and a historical appraisal of efforts to co-ordinate grand economic policies in South Africa. He completed a Ph.D in Public Administration at the University of Cape Town.

Part I: Framing the Issues1: Brian Levy: Improving basic education - the governance challenge2: Luis Crouch and Ursula Hoadley: The transformation of South Africa's system of basic education3: Robert Cameron and Vinothan Naidoo: Education policymaking at national level - the politics of multiple principalsPart II: Provincial Governance and Politics of Education4: Robert Cameron and Brian Levy: Provincial governance of education - the Western Cape experience5: Zukiswa Kota, Monica Hendricks, Eric Matambo, and Vinothan Naidoo: Provincial governance of education - the Eastern Cape experience6: Gabrielle Wills, Debra Shepherd, and Janeli Kotze: Explaining the Western Cape performance paradox: an econometric analysis7: Brian Levy, Robert Cameron, and Vinothan Naidoo: Context and capability: A tale of two bureaucraciesPart III: Horizontal Governance8: Ursula Hoadley, Brian Levy, Lawule Shumane, and Shelly Wilburn: Case studies of school-level governance dynamics in the Western Cape9: Brian Levy and Lawule Shumane: Case studies of school-level governance dynamics in the Eastern Cape10: Brian Levy: "All for education" - Meeting the governance challenge