How The New Education Establishment Betrayed The World's Poorest Children
Broken Promises, Broken Schools
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How The New Education Establishment Betrayed The World's Poorest Children
Broken Promises, Broken Schools
About this book
This book tells the real story of education in low-income countries and shows why ordinary people are making extreme sacrifices to reject free public schools in favor of low quality private schools, both legal and illegal. Based on the author's experience of working in the UN system, for a child rights NGO in New Delhi; and working on aid projects and with private foundations in Africa and South Asia, Joanna Harma reveals how public education systems got to their current state of dysfunction. She argues that the international aid community and United Nations bodies such as UNESCO and UNICEF have facilitated the decline in public education and argues that young children are being let down by education systems and policy from the local to the international. Harma looks at this issue from the perspectives of various stakeholders including international human rights workers, parents, the companies who set up the schools, policy makers and NGO workers. The book includes a preface from Ben Phillips, Director of Communications at The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Dedication Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Note on Sources
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 School’s in but No-one Is Learning
- 3 Mushrooms from Shit: How UN Efforts Meant Education Quality Would Die and Private Schools Would Explode
- 4 The Real Issue: Neglected Child Development
- 5 The Crisis Response from the Community: Cheap Private Schools
- 6 Damage and Loss: What Empire Did to Education in India
- 7 Well-intentioned (?) Blundering in ‘Advising’ National Governments
- 8 Bad Advice Regarding the Regulation of Cheap Private Schools
- 9 Thinking about Education the Way Starbucks Thinks about Coffee
- 10 Seeking Billions from the Bottom Billions: Capitalizing on Aid Spending through Northern ‘Partnership’ Policies
- 11 Searching for Solutions That Don’t Exist
- 12 Thousands of Tiny Lights in the Darkness: In Defence of Small Endeavours
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Imprint