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Blaming the Poor: Constructions of Marginality and Poverty in the Kenyan Education Sector
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Unterhalter, Elaine; Yates, Chris; Makinda, Herbert; North, Amy – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
The article examines how blame and disconnection from the lives of the poor feature in a nexus of ideas about implementing education policy articulated by education officials and teachers in Kenya. Three different approaches to understanding marginality are distinguished, each associated with a different process of setting a boundary concerning…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Schools of Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change