Syllabus/achievement requirements

Specialisation Area B: Policy and Planning

Theme 1: Governance and Management

Sociology of policy-making

Anderson-Levitt, K and Alimasi, N. 2001. Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea. In: Margaret Sutton and Bradley Levinson (eds), Policy as Practice; Toward a Comparative Socio-cultural Analysis of Educational Policy. London: Ablex Publishing, pp. 25-56 (31 pages)

Hoppers, W. 2009. Participatory practices in policy-making: Negotiating democratic outcomes or manoeuvring for compliance. International Journal of Educational Development 29, pp. 250—259. (9 pages).

Schwab, R.G. 2001. That School Gotta Recognise Our Policy!: The Appropriation of Educational Policy in an Australian Aboriginal Community. In: Sutton and Levinson, op.cit., pp. 243-263. (20 pages)

Evidence-based policy-making

Husen, T. and Kogan, M. 1984. Educational Research and Policy; How do they Relate?. Pergamon Press, 1984. pp. 1-32 (32 pages).

Weiss, C. and Bucuvalas, M. 1980. Social Science Research and Decision-making. New York: Columbia University Press, Chapters 1 and 14. (54 pages)

Nutley, S. and Webb, J. 2000. Evidence and the policy process. In: Davies, H., Nutley, S. and Smith, P. (eds.) What Works? Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Public Services. The Policy Press, pp. 13-36. (23 pages)

Civil society and educational policy

Klees, S. 2008. NGOs, Civil Society, and Development: Is there a Third Way? In: CICE, Vol. 10 (1/2),: Teachers’ College Columbia University:

Stromquist, N. 2008. Revisiting Transformational NGOs in the Context of Contemporary Society. In: CICE, Vol. 10 (1/2), Teachers’ College Columbia (3 pages).

Mundy, K. 2008. From BGOs to CSOs: Social Citizenship, Civil Society, and “Education for All” – An Agenda for Further Research. In: CICE, Vol. 10 (1/2), Teachers’ College Columbia (5 pages)

Silova, I. and Steiner-Khamsi, G. 2008. How NGOs React; Globalization and Educational Reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia. Kumarian Press, Chapters: Introduction, 2, and Conclusions (89 pages).

Policies on decentrailsation and their impact

Lauglo, L. 1995. Forms of Decentralization and their Implications for Education. In: Comparative Education, Vol 31, pp. 5-28 (23 pages).

Weiler, H. 1990. Comparative Perspectives on Educational Decentralisation: an Exercise in Contradiction? In: Grenheim, M. and Kogan, M. and Lundgren, U. (eds) In: Evaluation as Policy-making; Introducing evaluation into a national decentralised educational system. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 42-61. (19 pages)

Elmore, R. 1993. School Decentralisation: Who Gains? Who Loses?. In: Hannaway, J. and Carnoy, M. (eds). Decentralisation and School Improvement; Can We Fulfil the Promise? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. pp.33-53 (20 pages).

Ladd, H. and Fiske, E. 2003. Does Competition improve Teaching and Learning? Evidence from New Zealand. In: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol 25, no. 1, pp. 97-112. (15 pages)

Public-private partnerships

Verspoor, A . 2008. Reaching Across the Divide: Public Private Partnerships for Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the ADEA Biennale on Post-Primary Education, Maputo, Mozambique. (45 pages)

Vavrus, F. 2002. Making Distinctions: Privatisation and the (un)educated girl on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. International Journal of Educational Development Vol 22, no 5, pp. 527-545. (18 pages)

Bennell, P. 2003. Public-Private Partnerships for the Delivery of Basic Education Services to the Poor. Case-study 4: Public-Private Partnerships in Basic Education in South Asia. AKF-DFID Seminar. London: Oxford University. (13 pages).

Patronos, H.A., Barrera-Osorio, F., Guaqueta, J. 2009. The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education/ Working Paper. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. Chapters 3 and Conclusions (20 pages).

The management of diversity and inclusivity

Inglis, C. 2008. Planning for cultural diversity. Fundamentals of Educational Planning, no. 87. Paris: UNESCO-IIEP. Chapters: Introduction, I, II and III (47 pages).

Tsang, M.C. 1994. Cost analysis of educational inclusion of marginalized populations. Fundamentals of Educational Planning, no. 48. Paris: UNESCO-IIEP. Chapters: Introduction, I and II (54 pages).

Integrating faith-based education

Daun, H. and Walford, G. (eds.). 2004. Educational Strategies among Muslims in the Context of Globalisation; Some National Case Studies. Leiden: Brill. (Chapters 1, 5 and 8) (72 pages).

Number of pages for Theme 1: 615?

Theme 2: Quality and Relevance

The mult-dimensionality of quality

Understanding Education Quality. 2004. Education for All; the Quality Imperative. EFA Global Monitoring Report. Paris: UNESCO, pp. 27-78. (51 pages)

Barratt, A., Chawla-Duggan, R., Lowe, J., Nikel, J., Ukpo, E., 2008. The Concept of quality in education - A review of the ‘international’ literature on the concept of quality in education. Working Paper. EdQual RPC. (16 pages).

Welch, A. (ed.). 2000. Third World Education; Quality and Equality. New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 3-24. (21 pages).

Fullan, M. 1995. Change Forces; Probing the Depths of Educational Reform. London: Farmer Press, pp. 19-41. (23 pages).

Teachers, professionalism and teacher development

Elliot, J. 1993. Professional Education and the Idea of a Practical Educaitonal Science. In J. Elliott, Reconstructing Teacher Education. London: Farmer Press. pp. 65-85.

Hargreaves, A. 2006. Four Ages of Professionalism and Professional Learning. In P. B. H Launder, Education, Globalisation and Social Change. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 673-691.

Dillabough, J. 1999. Gender Politics and Conceptions of the Modern Teacher: Women, Identity, and Professionalism. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 20, No. 3., pp. 702-718 (16 pages).

Grossman, G., & Sands, M. 2008. Restructuring reforms on Turkish teacher education: Modernisation and development in a dynamic environment. International Journal of Educational Development vol 28 no 1, 70-80. (10 pages)

Mooij, J. 2008. Primary education, teachers’ professionalism and social class about motivation and demotivation of government school teachers in India. In: International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 29, no 5, pp. 508-522 (14 pages).

Vocationalisation of education

Foster, Philip J. 1965. The Vocational School Fallacy in Development Planning (27 pages). This paper is found in these books (and in others):

  • Anderson, C.A. & Bowman, M.J., (eds., 1965) Education and National Development. Chicago: Aldine.
  • Blaug, M. (ed. 1968)Economics of education 1: Selected Readings. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.
  • Karabel, J. & Halsey, A.H. (ed. 1977) Power and Ideology in Education. London: Oxford University Press.

King, K. and Martin, C. 2002. The vocational school fallacy revisited: education, aspiration and work in Ghana 1959-2000. In: International Journal of Educational Development, vol, 22, no 3-4, pp. 5-25. (20 pages).

Foster, P. 2002.The vocational school fallacy revisited: education, aspiration and work in Ghana 1959-2000. In: International Journal of Educational Development, vol, 22, no 3-4, pp. 27-28 (2 pages)

Lauglo, J. 2005. Vocationalised Secondary Education Revisited. In: Jon Lauglo and Rupert MacLean (eds). Vocationalised Education Revisited, UNESCO-UNEVOC, pp. 3-47 (44 pages).

Language and the curriculum

Brock-Utne,B. 2007. Learning through a familiar language versus learning through a foreign language - A look into some secondary classrooms in Tanzania, International Journal of Educational Development, vol. 27, no. 5 (pp. 487-499) (12 pages).

Prah, K. 2005. Language of Instruction for Education, Development and African Emancipation. In: Brock-Utne, B. and Hobson, R.K. (eds), Languages of Instruction for African Emancipation; Focus on Post-colonial Context and Considerations, Cape Town: CASAS, pp. 23-50 (27 pages).

Lai, P.K. and Byram, M. 1997. The Politics of Bilingualism: A Reproductive Analysis of the Policy of Mother Tongue Education in Hong Kong after 1997. In: H. Lauder et al, op.cit., pp. 490-504 (14 pages).

Alexander, N. 2005. Multilingualism, cultural diversity and cyberspace; an African perspective. Unpublished paper, submitted to a conference on the Hegemony of English and the Intellectualisation of the African Languages in Southern Africa. Cape Town: PRAESA. (16 pages)

ICTs in Education

Castells, M. 2000. The Information Age: Economic, Society and Culture. Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society. Prologue: The net and the self. Massachusetts/Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 1-27 (27 pages).

Eriksen, O. 2004. Experiences from ICT-based teacher education: technology as a foundation for active learning. Journal of Educational Media: the Journal of the Educational Television Association, Vol 29, no. 3, pp. 201-211 (9 pages).

Kim, P. and Miranda, T. and Olaciregui, T. 2008. Pocket School: Exploring mobile technology as a sustainable literacy education option for underserved indigenous children in Latin America. In: International Journal of Educational Development, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 435-445(8 pages).

Zain, M., Atan, H. and Idrus, R. 2004. The impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the management practices of Malaysian Smart Schools. In: International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 201-211 (10 pages).

Harry, K. 1999. (ed). Higher Education through Open and Distance Learning. World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning: Volume 1. London and New York: Routledge and The Commonwealth of Learning,. Chapters 3 and 8-2 (25 pages).

Non-formal education as alternative schooling

Farrell, J. and Hartwell, A. 2008. Planning for successful alternative schooling; a possible route to Education for All. IIEP Research Paper, Quality Education for All. Paris: UNESCO-IIEP, (38 pages).

La Belle, T. 2000. The Changing Nature of Non-formal Education in Latin-America. In: Comparative Education, Vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 21-34 (13 pages).

Hoppers, W. 2009. The Politics of Diversifying Basic Education Delivery; A Comparative Analysis. Paper presented at the Symposium on ‘The Politics of EFA Policy Formulation and Implementation’ at the 10th UKFIET Conference, Oxford. (19 pages).

Higher Education

Halsey, H. 2006. The European University. In: Lauder et al, Education, Globalisation and Social Change. Oxford University Press. pp. 854-864 (10 pages).

Levin, H.M. and Xu, Z. 2006. Issues in the Expansion of Higher Education in the People’s Republic of China. In: Lauder et al, Education, Globalisation and Social Change. Oxford University Press. Pp. 909-922 (13 pages).

Marginson, S. 2006. “National and Global Competition in Higher Education”. In: Lauder et al, Education, Globalisation and Social Change. Oxford University Press. pp. 893-907 (14 pages).

Scott, I. and Yeld, N. (2008). The Interface between further and higher education in South Africa; Factors affecting the higher education sector’s capacity to meet national needs. Paper prepared for the ADEA Biennale on Post-Primary Education, held in Maputo, Mozambique. (32 pages).

Mazrui, A. 1994. The Impact of Global Changes on Academic Freedom in Africa: A Preliminary Assessment. In: Diouf, Mamadou, an Mamdani, Mahmood (eds) Academic Freedom in Africa. Dakar: Codesria Book Series. pp. 118-140 (23 pages).

Number of pages for Theme2: 592

Total number of pages for Specialisation B: 1207

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