Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South

Using Capabilities and Causality to Re-examine Teacher Performance
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-49544-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 4091 g

A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours and offer nuanced, creative strategies for improvements.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tao, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Schulpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Rethinking Teacher Quality in the Global South

PART I: CAPABILITIES, CAUSALITY AND TEACHER PRACTICE: AN EXAMINATION OF TANZANIAN COMPLEXITIES

2. A New Lens for Analysis: The Capability Approach and Critical Realism

3. The Causal Effect of First-Order Functionings

4. How Gender is Causally Linked to Teacher Practice

5. Leadership's Causal Link to Classroom (In)action

PART II: PUTTING THE CA/CR LENS INTO PRACTICE: NEW PATHS FOR TRANSFORMING TEACHER QUALITY

6. Improving Female Teacher Deployment to Rural Schools

7. Reducing Corporal Punishment

8. Improving Teacher Motivation and Morale

9. Transforming Teacher Quality: Possibilities and Challenges

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon Tao is Education Adviser at Cambridge Education, UK and has worked on donor-funded education programmes across Africa and South Asia. She was awarded the Institute of Education-University College London Director's Prize for her PhD research which underpins her work within countries on teacher development, gender, school improvement and the enhancement of social justice in education.