Ambitions Racing Ahead of Capabilities: The Politics of a Competency-Based Curriculum in Kenya.
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2023
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University of Oxford. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.24565195.v1
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The RISE program is a seven-year research effort that seeks to understand what features make education systems coherent and effective in their context and how the complex dynamics within a system allow policies to be successful. RISE had research teams in seven countries: Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Vietnam. It also commissioned research by education specialists in Chile, Egypt, Kenya, Peru, and South Africa. Those researchers tested ideas about how the determinants of learning lie more in the realm of politics and particularly in the interests of elites. They focused on how the political conditions have (or have not) put learning at the center of education systems while understanding the challenges of doing so. Each country team produced a detailed study pursuing answers to two central research questions: Did the country prioritize student learning mere over access to schooling, and if so, during what periods?, What role did politics play in the key decisions and how? The full studies detail their analytical frameworks, their data, and sources (generally interviews, government internal documents and reports, and other local and international publications), and the power of their assessments, given their caveats and limitations. Country summaries extract from the full studies how leadership, governance, teaching, and societal engagement are pertinent to student outcomes
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RISE program, education systems, leadership, governance, teaching, and societal engagement
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Ayiro, L. P., Muriithi, S. M., Munyao, J., Radoli, L. O., & Munyao, M. (2023). Ambitions racing ahead of capabilities The politics of a competency-based curriculum in Kenya. University of Oxford. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.24565195.v1