MSc SOAS/PhD UCL: A POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGINS AND EFFECTS OF THE RISE OF PRIVATE LOW FEE SCHOOLS IN EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

伦敦大学学院亚非学院理学硕士/伦敦大学学院博士：撒哈拉以南非洲教育领域私立低收费学校兴起的起源和影响的政治经济学分析

• 批准号: 2238619
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2238619
• 关键词: MSc; SOAS; PhD; UCL; POLITICAL

1+3: MSc SOAS & MPhil/PHD at UCLThe research will critically assess current aid policies that promote and strengthen the role of the private sector in education in developing countries, such as those associated with the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), United Nations (UN) agencies, the World Bank and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). This will take into consideration the political, economic and socio-cultural context within which policies are formed as well as deploy a gender lens to consider ways in which effects of privatisation can be understood and are commonly evaluated. The study will engage explicitly across a set of different terrains of research. It will foster an interdisciplinary approach across education, gender studies and political economy that will benefit from practitioner perspective. The latter will result from collaboration with Action Aid, a key practitioner in the field of development policy. The proposed research project is intended to further support an investigation into the origins and effects of privatisation, particularly with regard to girls' education and gender equality, with related work offering positive solutions around expanding the sustainable financing of free public education, in line with SDG targets. Through the deployment of a gender lens in the appraisal of both the origins and the impact of the increased promotion of low fee private schools across developing countries, the current research will then draw on and contribute to a rich literature on gender dimensions of education realities (Monkman and Hoffman, 2013; Monkman and Webster, 2015; Unterhalter, 2016). This will be anchored more broadly in political-economy analysis of imperatives and interests that underpin changes in aid and development paradigms, including bearing on education. The overarching research questions are:1. How has the role and influence of private sector actors in global education and gender policy emerged and evolved since 2010?2. What are the implications of this for redressing inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa, including gender inequality?3. How are the prospects for a publicly funded education system that incorporates gender equality affected by the increased role of private actors in education? MethodologiesThe first strand of the research will unpack through documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews how and when representatives of the private sector came to play a role in global policy making around gender and girls' education and it will critically assess the forms of evidence that are deployed. A second strand of investigation will place the particular history of work on girls' education within an analysis of the imperatives and interests associated with the articulation and implementation of aid policy, with a specific focus on International Financial Institutions (e.g. the World Bank). This includes a critical appraisal of the Bank's role as Knowledge Bank and leader in development, including education policy. A third strand will focus on outcomes of a specific set of initiatives promoting low fee private schooling in developing countries. This will entail looking at a range of demographic data, national accounts, administrative data drawing out some key gender dimensions of provision. This also involve overseas fieldwork for a period of 3-6 months in Nigeria and Kenya or Uganda (not confirmed) during year two of the PhD programme.

1+3：伦敦大学学院的伦敦大学亚非学院理学硕士和哲学硕士/博士该研究将严格评估当前促进和加强私营部门在发展中国家教育中的作用的援助政策，例如与英国国际发展部（DFID）相关的政策，联合国 (UN) 机构、世界银行和全球教育伙伴关系 (GPE)。这将考虑到制定政策的政治、经济和社会文化背景，并运用性别视角来考虑如何理解和普遍评估私有化的影响。该研究将明确涉及一系列不同领域的研究。它将促进跨教育、性别研究和政治经济学的跨学科方法，这将从实践者的角度受益。后者将是与发展政策领域的主要实践者行动援助组织合作的结果。拟议的研究项目旨在进一步支持对私有化的起源和影响的调查，特别是在女童教育和性别平等方面，相关工作根据可持续发展目标，围绕扩大免费公共教育的可持续融资提供积极的解决方案目标。通过运用性别视角来评估发展中国家大力推广低收费私立学校的起源和影响，当前的研究将借鉴并贡献关于教育现实性别层面的丰富文献（蒙克曼和霍夫曼，2013；蒙克曼和韦伯斯特，2015；安特哈尔特，2016）。这将更广泛地扎根于对支撑援助和发展范式变化（包括对教育的影响）的必要性和利益的政治经济分析。首要的研究问题是： 1．自 2010 年以来，私营部门参与者在全球教育和性别政策中的作用和影响是如何出现和演变的？2。这对于纠正撒哈拉以南非洲的不平等现象（包括性别不平等）有何影响？3。私营部门在教育中的作用不断增强，对纳入性别平等的公共资助教育体系的前景有何影响？方法 研究的第一部分将通过文献分析和半结构化访谈来揭示私营部门代表如何以及何时在有关性别和女童教育的全球政策制定中发挥作用，并将严格评估证据的形式部署。第二部分调查将把女童教育工作的具体历史纳入对与援助政策的制定和实施相关的必要性和利益的分析中，并特别关注国际金融机构（例如世界银行）。这包括对世行作为知识银行和发展（包括教育政策）领导者的作用进行批判性评估。第三部分将重点关注促进发展中国家低收费私立学校的一系列具体举措的成果。这将需要研究一系列人口数据、国民账户、行政数据，得出一些关键的性别维度。这还包括在博士课程第二年在尼日利亚、肯尼亚或乌干达（未确认）进行为期 3-6 个月的海外实地考察。