Getting Schools to Work Better Educational Accountability and Teacher Support in India and China
Synopsis
Yifei Yan’s ambitious multi-method case study of government middle schools in Beijing and Delhi provides fresh insights into how educational accountability can be designed to work, in part and as a whole.Getting schools to work better is a challenge just about everywhere. Many policy experts prescribe measures for strengthening school accountability, either through government command and control or through alternative market and societal actors. In challenging this conventional wisdom, this book examines how China and India are tackling the challenge with a specific focus on supporting teachers along with traditional accountability-strengthening measures. The book draws implications from its case studies for how education systems can be designed towards the fulfilment of Sustainable Development Goal 4. It further develops the concept of "Accountability 3.0" to elucidate a novel and more holistic reconceptualisation of the appropriate means needed to fulfil multiple purposes of accountability, in which providing support to frontline workers is viewed as an integral component.This book will appeal to a wide spectrum of scholars and practitioners in the fields of comparative education, public administration, public policy and development studies, among others. It will be especially interesting to those from the developing world facing similar accountability challenges as described.Book details
- Series:
- Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
- Author:
- Yifei Yan
- ISBN:
- 9781003830641
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032136677, 9781003830634, 9781003230380
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2024-03-15
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Copyright by:
- Yifei Yan
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Education, Nonfiction, Politics and Government