Teacher Distribution in Developing Countries

Teachers of Marginalized Students in India, Mexico, and Tanzania

Thomas F. Luschei, Amita Chudgar (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

136 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-57925-6 (ISBN)

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This book draws on case studies from India, Mexico, and Tanzania to examine the complex processes that lead to the educational marginalization of children through differential access to teacher quality. Growing evidence indicates that access to good teachers can boost the academic success of disadvantaged children and narrow achievement gaps between more and less privileged students. Yet in many countries, stronger teachers are concentrated in the classrooms of more advantaged children. Using a teacher labor markets framework, the authors explore the actions of those who employ teachers the demand side and teachers themselves the supply side. Examining key junctures in the teacher career pipeline, from recruitment and training to retention and transfer, the authors find that the actions of the demand side often clash with teachers’ preferences to live and work in satisfactory environments or to be close to home and family. Too often, the misalignment of the demand and supply sidesplaces marginalized children at a profound educational disadvantage.

Thomas F. Luschei is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Urban Leadership PhD Program at the School of Educational Studies of Claremont Graduate University, USA. His research interests include international and comparative education, the economics of education, teacher labor markets and teacher quality, educational equity, and teacher-related policies in Latin America and the United States. Amita Chudgar is Associate Professor of Education Policy in the College of Education at Michigan State University, USA. Her scholarship is driven by an interest in ensuring that children and adults in resource-constrained environments have equal access to high-quality learning opportunities irrespective of their backgrounds.

Chapter 1 Reaching and Teaching Marginalized Children.- Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework Marginalized Children and Their Teachers.- Chapter 3 Setting the Study Context: India, Mexico and Tanzania.- Chapter 4 Demand-side Explanations for Inequitable Teacher Distribution.- Chapter 5 Supply-side Explanations for Inequitable Teacher Distribution.- Chapter 6 Good Teachers for All: Toward a More Just Distribution of Teachers.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 136 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
Schlagworte	Education • educational equity • India • Marginalized children • Mexico • Teacher distribution • Teacher labor markets • Teacher quality • Teacher recruitment and transfer
ISBN-10	1-137-57925-0 / 1137579250
ISBN-13	978-1-137-57925-6 / 9781137579256
Zustand	Neuware