Achieving Equitable Education argues that critical gaps in education data are hampering the achievement of one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: “inclusive and equitable quality education…for all”. This book critically explores education data gaps across regions, themes and levels of education, highlighting key relationships and disconnects between national, regional and global data needs.
Written by expert researchers and practitioners, this informative book establishes a conceptual framework for assessing missing education data and how such gaps disproportionately affect marginalised groups. It then presents a series of regional perspectives on education data gaps from across the globe including Africa, the Arab states, Asia and Latin America, before examining how progress can be made in improving data governance. Incisive and perceptive, this book deftly interrogates the drivers of missing education data and argues that substantive reform to the global education data system can better contribute to the goal of quality, equitable education for all.
Achieving Equitable Education will prove a stimulating resource for students and researchers in comparative education, education policy and international development. Its crucial overview of the education data regime will also benefit education practitioners and policymakers as well as practitioners working with national education data systems.
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Whilst the SDG4 collects statistical data on a range of education issues, it has transformed the technical spaces of data production into venues of deliberation on future policy directions. However, what about what we do not know? This books chapters chart in detail the challenges and repercussions of dealing with missing data, missing vulnerable populations, missing national relevance and, ultimately, missing the goal of using data meaningfully to support impactful education policies on the ground. Based on empirical evidence and analysis, and written by education experts working in the field, the book is recommended thoroughly to all those, experts and policymakers alike, that strive so that the SDG4 is not another missed opportunity in the governance of global education. -- Sotiria Grek, University of Edinburgh, UK
Contents:
1 Introduction to missing education data and the
SDG 4 data regime 1
Daniel Shephard and Marcos Delprato
2 A conceptual framework to assess missing data for SDG 4 14
Marcos Delprato
3 Priorities for missing data and SDG 4: Latin
America and the Caribbean 32
Alejandro Vera, Ernesto Yáñez and Martín Scasso
4 Priorities for missing data and SDG 4 in the Asia region 49
James Shoobridge
5 Priorities for missing data on SDG 4 in the Arab Region 68
Karma El Hassan
6 Priorities for missing data and SDG 4 for countries
in Africa 85
Angela Arnott
7 Missing education data on internally displaced
people (IDPs) 103
Chiara Valenti and Louisa Yasukawa
8 Indigenous data sovereignty and missing education data 120
Jacob Prehn, Karen Martin and Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews
9 Gender, missing data and SDG 4 138
Helen Longlands, Rosie Peppin Vaughan and
Elaine Unterhalter
10 Conclusions on missing education data and the
SDG 4 data regime 156
Marcos Delprato and Daniel Shephard
Index
Edited by Marcos Delprato, Instituto de Investigaciones Educativas (IIE), Universidad Nacional de Chilecito, Argentina and Daniel D. Shephard, NORRAG, Geneva Graduate Institute and Indiana University Bloomington, US
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