1st Edition
Quality Teaching and the Capability Approach Evaluating the work and governance of women teachers in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction Part 1 Rurality, Women Teachers and Educational Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for quality. The Capability Approach: Re-thinking quality teaching Part 2 Constructing and Evaluating Teachers’ Professional Capabilities: A method. Professional Capabilities for Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Official perspectives. Women Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: Professional lives and values. Professional Capabilities for Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Teachers’ perspectives. Professional Capabilities for Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Teachers’ perspectives Part 3 New Perspectives on Professional Capabilities, Quality Teaching and the Educational Governance of Women Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Biography
Alison Buckler is an academic in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University, UK. Alison previously worked as a Researcher on the award-winning Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) programme, an international consortium concerned with the production, distribution and supported use of open educational resources for teacher education and professional development.
‘If we are to develop new policies around the recruitment and retention of the millions of extra teachers, then research on teachers’ lives is going to be extremely important. We need new paradigms for such work and this book is a highly creative contribution to this task.’ - Bob Moon, Emeritus Professor of Education, The Open University, UK
