ERIC Number: EJ806355
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0907-5682
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Working on the Impossible: Early Childhood Policies in Namibia
Penn, Helen
Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, v15 n3 p379-395 2008
This article discusses the complexities of aid-giving using the example of early childhood policies in Namibia. It supports a critical view of aid processes and of World Bank endeavours in particular. Using an analysis of the World Bank funded education sector-wide improvement plan (ETSIP) in Namibia and three Namibian local case studies, it shows how the local circumstances of young children and their parents are ignored in order to fit in with donor preconceptions, and how senior officials come to adopt those views. It argues that universally derived policies on early childhood development are misapplied, and poverty and inequality are ignored in the search for technocratic solutions. (Contains 1 table and 4 notes.)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Developing Nations, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Educational Improvement, Case Studies, Donors, Child Development, Poverty, Equal Education, Social Bias, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Namibia
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