Getting schools to work better: educational accountability and teacher support in India and China

Abstract

Yifei Yan’s ambitious multi-method case study of government middle schools
in Beijing and Delhi provides fresh insights into how educational accountability
can be designed to work, in part and as a whole.

Getting schools to work better is a challenge just about everywhere. Many policy experts prescribe measures for strengthening school accountability, either
through government command and control or through alternative market and societal actors. In challenging this conventional wisdom, this book examines how China and India are tackling the challenge of getting schools to work better, with a specific focus on supporting teachers along with traditional accountability-strengthening measures. The book draws implications from its case studies for how education systems can be designed towards the fulfilment of Sustainable Development Goal 4. It further develops the concept of “Accountability 3.0” to elucidate a novel and more holistic reconceptualisation of the appropriate means needed to fulfil multiple purposes of accountability, in which providing support to frontline workers is viewed as an integral component.

This book will appeal to a wide spectrum of scholars and practitioners in the
fields of comparative education, public administration, public policy and development studies, among others. It will be especially of interest to those from
the developing world facing similar accountability challenges as described.

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ORCID for Yifei Yan: orcid.org/0000-0003-2833-5972

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