Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South Using Capabilities and Causality to Re-examine Teacher Performance /

• Main Author: Tao, Sharon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Ethnology > Africa.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Teaching.; Sociology.; Economic development.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Development Studies.; International and Comparative Education.; African Culture.; Sociology, general.; Educational Policy and Politics.

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' beha...