TY - CHAP
T1 - Education and inequality
T2 - Implications of the World Bank's Education Strategy 2020
AU - Joshi, Devin
AU - Smith, William
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - This chapter analyzes the World Bank's Education Strategy 2020 (WBES) to assess its likely impact on inequality. The chapter begins with a review of assessments of the Bank's past education policies. It then compares four different theoretical perspectives on education policy: social class equalization, public goods, human capital, and neoliberalism. Applying quantitative and qualitative content analysis to the WBES, we identify the World Bank's approach as promoting a neo-liberal capitalist development ideology emphasizing private sector schooling and nonformal education along with standardized testing. Our analysis predicts that this strategy will not lead to major increases in educational equality in the developing world, and may even increase inequality.
AB - This chapter analyzes the World Bank's Education Strategy 2020 (WBES) to assess its likely impact on inequality. The chapter begins with a review of assessments of the Bank's past education policies. It then compares four different theoretical perspectives on education policy: social class equalization, public goods, human capital, and neoliberalism. Applying quantitative and qualitative content analysis to the WBES, we identify the World Bank's approach as promoting a neo-liberal capitalist development ideology emphasizing private sector schooling and nonformal education along with standardized testing. Our analysis predicts that this strategy will not lead to major increases in educational equality in the developing world, and may even increase inequality.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879623419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/S1479-3679(2012)0000016013
DO - 10.1108/S1479-3679(2012)0000016013
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84879623419
SN - 9781780522760
T3 - International Perspectives on Education and Society
SP - 173
EP - 202
BT - Education Strategy in the Developing World
A2 - Collins, Christopher
A2 - Wiseman, Alexander
PB - Emerald Group Publishing
ER -