Quality Teaching and the Capability Approach

This book provides an analytical exploration of the condition of teachers working in expanding school systems across the world, with a particular focus on the lives of women teachers in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from award-winning research, it looks beyond the official portrayals of teachers' lives in order to better understand the reality of the contexts in which teachers live and work.

Alison Buckler is an academic in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University, UK. Alison previously worked as a Researcher on the award-winning Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) programme, an international consortium concerned with the production, distribution and supported use of open educational resources for teacher education and professional development.

Introduction Part 1 Rurality, Women Teachers and Educational Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for quality. The Capability Approach: Re-thinking quality teaching Part 2 Constructing and Evaluating Teachers' Professional Capabilities: A method. Professional Capabilities for Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Official perspectives. Women Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: Professional lives and values. Professional Capabilities for Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Teachers' perspectives. Professional Capabilities for Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Teachers' perspectives Part 3 New Perspectives on Professional Capabilities, Quality Teaching and the Educational Governance of Women Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa