The course examines the complex challenges of translating education policies for promoting access and equity into tangible outcomes through program design and implementation. Specifically, the course will focus on the policy-implementation nexus in the complexities of resource-constrained contexts of the global south. With theoretical and experiential insights from cases of actual education policy successes and failures in the global south, this course will provide the participants with a nuanced understanding of the dynamics of policy implementation for achieving desired outcomes in low-resource contexts.
The course builds on the knowledge foundation of the OSUN Certificate in Global Educational Development (GLOBALED), a network course bringing together students from diverse OSUN-affiliated institutions from four continents and was piloted as a summer course in 2023. The course will draw upon bodies of scholarship in education policy, public administration, and international development to offer the participants a nuanced understanding of processes and factors that shape education policy implementation in low-resource contexts in the global south and for under-served populations in the global north.
- Course coordinator: Jakab Vince