Regional Disparities in Primary School Participation in Developing Countries

Autor/in	Sherman, Joel D.
Titel	Regional Disparities in Primary School Participation in Developing Countries
Quelle	In: Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 38 (2008) 3, S.305-323 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-1538
DOI	10.1007/s11125-009-9087-0
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Developing Nations; Regional Characteristics; Comparative Education; Elementary Education; Equal Education; Enrollment Rate; Teacher Student Ratio; Pretests Posttests; Benchmarking; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Africa; Asia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Regionaler Faktor; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Elementarunterricht; Lehrer-Schüler-Relation; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Afrika; Asien
Abstract	Education for All has focused international attention on the goals of universal primary education and improved education quality. However, national indicators related to these goals often mask significant differences among demographic and social groups, as well as among geographical regions within countries. This paper, based on a study commissioned by UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report team, examines within-country (regional) disparities in participation in primary education in between 55 and 60 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Arab States. After reviewing the methodology used in the analysis, the paper compares countries' disparities in net enrolment rates before and after the Dakar Framework was established in 2000, changes over the pre- to post-Dakar period and a comparison of net enrolment rates with pupil-teacher ratios--one of the standard measures of education quality. Overall, the analysis finds significant differences in the magnitude of regional disparities in primary participation across the countries, with the smallest disparities in Latin America and the largest in sub-Saharan Africa. While just over half the countries with both pre- and post-Dakar data showed improvements over the period, there was little change in countries' rankings on the disparities measures over this period. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10