The Education of Nations: How the Political Organization of the Poor, Not Democracy, Led Governments to Invest in Mass Education - Couverture souple

Kosack, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199841675 ISBN 13 : 9780199841677

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2012

Synopsis

Mass education is vital to sustainable development, particularly in the information age. In The Education of Nations, Stephen Kosack provides a framework for understanding when a government will invest in quality mass education or concentrate on higher education restricted to elites. Drawing on detailed evidence from more than five decades in Taiwan, Ghana, and Brazil - three countries with little in common - Kosack demonstrates that two conditions lead developing nations to invest in mass education. The first of these is an economy in which employers face a shortage of skilled labor that they cannot meet with outsourcing or by hiring foreign workers; the second, and more common, is a government engaging in "political entrepreneurship of the poor" - developing organizational structures that allow poor citizens to act collectively to support the government. In bringing these conditions to light, The Education of Nations provides a method to explain not only how governments try to distribute educational opportunity, but also the implications for a range of key features of actual education systems, from the relative conditions of schools to the availability of financial aid. In an era when much of a country's success depends on its education, this book explains why governments adopt particular education policies and the political and economic changes that would lead to different ones.

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À propos de l'auteur

Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199841675
• ISBN 13: 9780199841677
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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