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

Tao, Sharon

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' behaviours and offer nuanced, creative strategies for improvements.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-02-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137495440

DOI: 10.1057/9781137495457

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 233