Overview
- Presents the first comprehensive account of inequality and policy responses in Ethiopian higher education
- Reveals the tension between neoliberal reform agendas and educational justice goals in the context of a developing country
- Elucidates factors and expressions of structural inequality in higher education
- Offers a new analytical framework for redefining inequality in higher education as capability deprivation
Part of the book series: Education Policy & Social Inequality (EPSI, volume 2)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Context
Keywords
- Amartya Sen
- Capability Approach
- Capability Deprivation
- Education funding
- Educational justice
- Higher Education in Africa
- Higher Education in Ethiopia
- Knowledge Economy
- Persisting Inequalities in Higher Education
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Policy Silences
- Poverty Reduction Strategy
- Structural Inequality in Higher Education
- Widening Access in Higher Education
- affirmative action admission policy
- critical policy sociology
- inequality as a policy issue
- policy responses to inequality
- policy responses to inequality in higher education
- public universities in Ethiopia
About this book
In a departure from conventional studies that consider policy a response to social problems, the book takes a critical perspective to show the constitutive role of policy, and explains how the representation of the problem of social inequality undermines equity policy outcomes in Ethiopian higher education. Not only does the book problematise the framing of the problem of inequality in the system, it also outlines strategies for designing transformative equity instruments. In explainingstructural factors of inequality and equity provisions, the book productively combines sociological concepts with historical accounts and political economy insights.
Given the increased economic optimism associated with higher education in sub-Saharan Africa and the neoliberal ideals underpinning much of the restructuring of the system in the region, this is a timely and important contribution that sheds light on the social justice implications and consequences of such changes. It offers fresh accounts of largely neglected qualitative cases of inequality, making it a valuable read for students and researchers in the areas of Ethiopian education policy studies, international and comparative education, and international development.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education in Ethiopia
Book Subtitle: Structural Inequalities and Policy Responses
Authors: Tebeje Molla
Series Title: Education Policy & Social Inequality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7933-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7931-3Published: 26 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5684-1Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7933-7Published: 18 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2520-1476
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1484
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education