This book offers in-depth analyses of how education interacts with
social inequality in Southern contexts. Drawing on a range of
disciplinary frameworks, it presents new analyses of existing knowledge
and new empirical data which define the challenges and possibilities of
successful educational reform. It is a tribute to the work of the late
Christopher Colclough, who, as a leading figure in education and
international development, played a key role in the global fight for
education for all children.
The book critically engages with international evidence of educational
access, retention and outcomes, offering new understandings of how
social inequalities currently facilitate, mediate or restrict
educational opportunities. It exposes the continuing influence of wealth
and regional inequalities and caste and gendered social structures.
Researchers in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Uganda highlight how
the aspirations of families living in poverty remain unfilled by
poor-quality education and low economic opportunities and how schools
and teachers currently address issues of gender, disability and
diversity. The book highlights a range of new priorities for research
and identifies some necessary strategies for education reform, policy
approaches and school practice, if educational equality for all children
is to be achieved.
The book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars, educational
practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of economics, politics and
sociology of education, international education, poverty research and
international development.
Chapters 1, 6, 7 and 12 of this book are freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
license (Ch7) and Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license (Chs 1/ 6/ 12) available at https:
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