Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South Using Capabilities

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 capabiliti

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Also by Sharon Tao Tao, S. (2015) Corporal punishment, capabilities and well-being: Tanzanian primary school teachers’ perspectives. In J. Parkes (ed.) Gender Violence and Violations: The Educational Challenge in Poverty Contexts. London: Routledge. Tao, S. (2014) Using the Capability Approach to improve female teacher deployment to rural schools in Nigeria. International Journal of Educational Development. 39.1, pp. 92–99. Tao, S. (2014) Ethnography of primary school teaching in Tanzania. In M. Watts and M. Parsons (eds) International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research Methods. London: Springer. Tao, S. (2013) Why are teachers absent? Utilising the Capability Approach and Critical Realism to explain teacher performance in Tanzania. International Journal of Educational Development. 33.1, pp. 2–14. Tao, S. (2013) Investigating teacher capabilities in Tanzanian primary schools. In B. Moon (ed.) Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development. London: Routledge.

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

TRANSFORMING TEACHER QUALITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: USING CAPABILITIES AND CAUSALITY TO RE-EXAMINE TEACHER PERFORMANCE

Copyright © Sharon Tao, 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-49544-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500 New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. ISBN 978-1-349-69755-7 E-PDF ISBN: 978-1-137-49545-7 DOI: 10.1057/9781137495457 Distribution in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is by Palgrave Macmillan®, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tao, Sharon. Title: Transforming teacher quality in the global south : using capabilities and causality to re-examine teacher performance / Sharon Tao. Descrip