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Low-Fee Private Schools for Early Childhood Care and Education? Insights from Zambia in the Context of Economic Globalisation
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Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Okitsu, Taeko; Mwanza, Peggy – International Review of Education, 2022
In the past decade, the trend of "low-fee private schools" (LFPSs) for the poor has increasingly gained attention, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where governmental funding is insufficient to provide education for all. Up to now, research has tended to address this phenomenon in the context of primary and, to some…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Fees, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Low-Fee Private Schools, the State, and Globalization: A Market Analysis within the Political Sociology of Education and Development
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Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Okitsu, Taeko; Mwanza, Peggy – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This study investigates the emergence and supply-demand dynamics of a market for low-fee private schools (LFPS) at the level of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in a slum of Lusaka, Zambia. Based on data collection over 1.5 years, the study reveals that, despite a government policy to support ECCE, over 90% of ECCE centers are private;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Fees, Supply and Demand