Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South (eBook)

Using Capabilities and Causality to Re-examine Teacher Performance

Sharon Tao (Autor)

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2016
233 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-49545-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 (CA/CR) lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours.

Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South first applies this analytical lens to a Tanzanian case study in order to show how issues concerning gender, leadership and daily survival are causally linked to actions such as absenteeism, distraction and lack of preparation. The second half of this book then uses the CA/CR lens to inform the design of interventions to address these and other issues, such as corporal punishment, teacher morale and female teacher deployment to rural schools.

The analyses from this award-winning research not only provide detailed explanations of teacher performance, but also offer nuanced and creative strategies aimed at improvements. This book will be of great value to anyone in education and international development who would like to see theoretical and academic rigour underpin practical strategies aiming to transform teacher quality.

Sharon Tao is an 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 to this day, underpins much of her work in Africa on teacher development, gender, school improvement and the enhancement of social justice in and through education.

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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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

1. Rethinking Teacher Quality in the Global SouthPART I: CAPABILITIES, CAUSALITY AND TEACHER PRACTICE: AN EXAMINATION OF TANZANIAN COMPLEXITIES2. A New Lens for Analysis: The Capability Approach and Critical Realism3. The Causal Effect of First-Order Functionings4. How Gender is Causally Linked to Teacher Practice5. Leadership's Causal Link to Classroom (In)actionPART II: PUTTING THE CA/CR LENS INTO PRACTICE: NEW PATHS FOR TRANSFORMING TEACHER QUALITY6. Improving Female Teacher Deployment to Rural Schools7. Reducing Corporal Punishment8. Improving Teacher Motivation and Morale9. Transforming Teacher Quality: Possibilities and Challenges

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: X, 233 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Africa • Capability Approach • corporal punishment • Critical Realism • Design • Developing Countries • Education • education quality • Gender • Gender-based violence • global South • Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung • Intervention • Leadership • Motivation • Nation • quality • Realism • Research • rural teachers • Tanzania • teacher deployment • Teacher development • teacher morale • teacher motivation • teacher performance • Teacher quality • Violence
• ISBN-10: 1-137-49545-6 / 1137495456
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-49545-7 / 9781137495457