Decentralisation to Improve Teacher Quality? District Institutes of Education and Training in India

Autor/in	Dyer, Caroline
Titel	Decentralisation to Improve Teacher Quality? District Institutes of Education and Training in India
Quelle	In: Compare A Journal of Comparative Education, 35 (2005) 2, S.139-152 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teacher Effectiveness; Accountability; Teacher Competencies; Administrative Organization; Educational Improvement; Preservice Teacher Education; Educational Quality; Agency Cooperation; Private Schools; Educational Change; Governance; Educational Policy; Government School Relationship; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Verantwortung; Lehrkunst; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Private school; Privatschule; Bildungsreform; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Politics of education; Indien
Abstract	Decentralisation is often expected to improve democratic participation and empowerment, and improve government responsiveness to local needs. International experience demonstrates that striking the right balance between centralisation and decentralisation remains highly challenging, and that developing appropriate institutional capacity to discharge new responsibilities is difficult and often neglected--yet both are crucial to effective decentralisation. Taking a sample of six district institutes of education and training (DIETs) across three states as a case study, this paper explores India's policy and processes of decentralising teacher education. It identifies as major barriers to the emergence of DIETs their recruitment and staffing policies, and contested agendas of power, control and accountability. Yet it also finds evidence from two districts of progress towards establishing productive partnerships, in an emerging process of decentralisation that is allowing the DIETs to play a significant role in supporting teachers. Here, the DIET idea is justified, and the potential of a decentralised teacher education system to improve systemic accountability towards quality improvement and primary teachers is demonstrated. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10