The Complexity of Decentralisation Reforms: An analysis of the spaces for community participationin the education sector in Cambodia

Pellini, Arnaldo

ISBN 10: 3639084365 / ISBN 13: 9783639084368

Published by VDM Verlag, 2008

In. Seller Inventory # ria9783639084368_new

Synopsis:

This book analyses the characteristics of community participation in Cambodian rural schools. It looks at the spaces for participation created by the decentralisation reforms that the government of Cambodia has undertaken in the education sector through two main policies: school clustering and Priority Action Programme. While institutionalised spaces of participation created by these policies are relatively new, Cambodian communities, despite twenty five years of political turmoil, have traditionally provided support to schools through school associations. The study refers to bonding, bridging, and institutional social capital to explore, respectively, the characteristics of the horizontal links between community members as well as different forms of collective action, and the vertical links between community, schools and local government institutions. The analysis should be especially useful to academics, researchers, policy makers, and development practitioners involved and interested in the complexity of the link between participation and local governance reforms.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Complexity of Decentralisation Reforms: ...
Publisher: VDM Verlag
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New