Education and Poverty Reduction Strategies

Issues of Policy Coherence (Colloquium Proceedings) The connection between poverty and lack of education seems entirely self-evident. Yet, real progress in overcoming the obstacles to education and economic affluence has eluded governments and social activists worldwide for decades. This book interrogates the link between education and poverty reduction and highlights the role of cross-sectoral coordination and policy coherence in breaking the poverty trap.

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 148mm

Pages:

288

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2222-9

Publish Year:

2023

Rights:

World Rights

Section 1: Conceptual and theoretical frameworks
1. Policy coherence: Meanings, concepts and frameworks
Simeon Maile

2. Education in South Africa: Some points for policy coherence
Jonathan Carter

3. Putting research on education and poverty into practice: Strategies for education and poverty research
Simeon Maile

4. Education and poverty reduction/eradication: Omissions, fashions and promises
Yusuf Sayed

5. Education for poverty alleviation: Myth or reality?
Joe Teffo

Section 2: Poverty in education
6. Student poverty in higher education: The impact of higher education dropout on poverty
Moeketsi Letseka and Mignonne Breier

7. Breaking the shackles of poverty through education enhancing programmes: The glimmer of optimism in School Nutrition Programme
Zama Kiti

Section 3: Critical reflections on education and poverty policy
8. The complexity of systems change in education
Graeme Bloch

9. The boundaries of care: Education policy interventions for vulnerable children
Ursula Hoadley

10. Education and poverty: Development policy options in a democratic era
Simeon Maile

11. Poverty, unemployment and education: Strategies to address the disservice of modern development
Reynold Sonn

Section 4: Lessons and case studies
12. Skills development for poverty reduction: Can FET colleges deliver?
Salim Akoojee and Simon McGrath

13. Corporate social investment in education: The paradox of poverty alleviation in South Africa
Delia Nzekwu

14. Challenges facing the implementation of policy on girls’ education in Zanzibar
Issa Ziddy

15. The role of media in education and poverty reduction
Jane Stadler

Section 5: Biographies of hope
16. Integration of ex-offenders: Introduction
Edna Freinkel

Salim Akoojee is a researcher at the HSRC. He is currently based in the Education, Sciences and Skills Development research programme.

Graeme Bloch is currently the Development Bank of Southern Africa education policy analyst.

Mignonne Breier is a chief research specialist in the Education, Sciences and Skills Development research programme at the HSRC.

Jonathan Carter is a senior research manager in the Policy Analysis Unit at the HSRC.

Edna Freinkel serves on the editorial board of Dyslexia, the Journal of the British Dyslexia Association, and is a founder and trustee of the Readucate Trust, a non-profit literacy and educational NGO.

Ursula Hoadley is a research specialist at the HSRC.

Zama Kiti is a research trainee at the HSRC’s Policy Analysis Unit.

Moeketsi Letseka is a senior research specialist in the Education, Science and Skills Development research programme at the HSRC and serves on the editorial committee of the South African Journal of Higher Education as a senior consultant editor.

Simeon Maile is a research director in the Policy Analysis Unit, and acts as Director for Capacity Development at the HSRC.

Junius Malema is an ex-offender and a former military officer who is now a teacher.

Simon McGrath is a professor of International Education and Development and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Development. He is based at the Unesco Centre for Comparative Education Research at the University of Nottingham.

Stanley Ngobeni is an ex-offender who was initially a police officer in Soweto and is now a Director and shareholder of a company.

Delia Nzekwu has career experience in general management, communications marketing, teaching, journalism and customer services in various organisations.

Yusuf Sayed is an education development specialist with a background in international development research, teaching, policy and practice.

Reynold Sonn has worked in the field of tertiary education for 26 years and is presently the campus head of the WSU Vuli Valley Campus (a satellite campus of WSU).

Jane Stadler is based at the University of Australia and specialises in the areas of communication, HIV/AIDS and corporate social responsibility.

Joe Teffo is a professor of philosophy and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Limpopo.

Issa Ziddy is a senior lecturer at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) and a Director of the Institute of Kiswahili and Foreign Languages of SUZA.