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The Political Economy of Universal Primary Education

Waldén, Tuomas LU (2019) In Thesis Paper STVK12 20191
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The idea of Universal Primary Education has always been an essential part of the core concept of development. Whether gained through formal or informal channels has played relatively a little role, as long as the end-result has been an individual, who has obtained the basic level of schooling. The concept of quality education however, has not been the focus of this basic education until only recently. This involves a difficult exercise of navigating between finite and often diminishing resources, responding to quickly changing education industry incentives. All the while trying to attract enough learned professionals to maintain a sustained effort of improving the earlier reached level of education. This paper studies the challenges of... (More)
The idea of Universal Primary Education has always been an essential part of the core concept of development. Whether gained through formal or informal channels has played relatively a little role, as long as the end-result has been an individual, who has obtained the basic level of schooling. The concept of quality education however, has not been the focus of this basic education until only recently. This involves a difficult exercise of navigating between finite and often diminishing resources, responding to quickly changing education industry incentives. All the while trying to attract enough learned professionals to maintain a sustained effort of improving the earlier reached level of education. This paper studies the challenges of trying to find a balanced approach to the overall concept of quality-oriented primary education itself within the international political economy. Through use of political economy analysis with a readjusted focus on political factors, this paper uses the World Bank as a point of comparison to the United Nations notion of universal quality primary education. The paper finds that unless enough concerted institutional political pressure can be directed against the over-marketisation of national education programmes by the multilateral development banks, the prospect of quality primary education will likely become increasingly difficult to reach. (Less)
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author
Waldén, Tuomas LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
A Readjusted Political Economy Analysis of Free Quality Primary Education
A Case Study of the World Bank Education System
course
STVK12 20191
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Universal Primary Education, Quality Education, Free Primary Education, World Bank, Political Economy
publication/series
Thesis Paper
language
English
id
8990697
date added to LUP
2019-09-06 09:09:57
date last changed
2019-09-06 09:09:57
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  abstract     = {{The idea of Universal Primary Education has always been an essential part of the core concept of development. Whether gained through formal or informal channels has played relatively a little role, as long as the end-result has been an individual, who has obtained the basic level of schooling. The concept of quality education however, has not been the focus of this basic education until only recently. This involves a difficult exercise of navigating between finite and often diminishing resources, responding to quickly changing education industry incentives. All the while trying to attract enough learned professionals to maintain a sustained effort of improving the earlier reached level of education. This paper studies the challenges of trying to find a balanced approach to the overall concept of quality-oriented primary education itself within the international political economy. Through use of political economy analysis with a readjusted focus on political factors, this paper uses the World Bank as a point of comparison to the United Nations notion of universal quality primary education. The paper finds that unless enough concerted institutional political pressure can be directed against the over-marketisation of national education programmes by the multilateral development banks, the prospect of quality primary education will likely become increasingly difficult to reach.}},
  author       = {{Waldén, Tuomas}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{Thesis Paper}},
  title        = {{The Political Economy of Universal Primary Education}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}