Thursday 21 March 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT
Book Launch: In-person and online public event (MAR.1.08, Marshall Building)
Hosted by the School of Public Policy, LSE.
This event launches the book Getting Schools to Work Better: Educational Accountability and Teacher Support in India and China by Yifei Yan.
Getting schools to work better is a challenge just about everywhere. Many policy experts prescribe measures for strengthening school accountability either by government command and control or through alternative market and societal actors. In challenging this conventional wisdom, Yifei Yan’s 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 to enhance student learning towards the fulfilment of Sustainable Development Goal 4.
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 interesting to those from the developing world facing similar accountability challenges described.
More about our speaker and chair
Discussant: Mobarak Hossain is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Policy, LSE.
Speaker: Yifei Yan is Assistant Professor in Public Administration and Public Policy at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton. Her research on comparative public policy and administration has won international awards from the Indian Public Policy Network and European Group for Public Administration, among others.
Chair: Shuang Chen is Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at the Department of Social Policy, LSE.