Culture and Mass Schooling by Melina R. Platas PAPERBACK 9781009640367

Name: Culture and Mass Schooling by Melina R. Platas PAPERBACK 9781009640367
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Culture and Mass SchoolingThe Colonial Roots of Educational Inequality in Africa\nAuthor(s): Melina R. Platas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009640367, 978-1009640367\nSynopsis\nEducation is central to politics, economic growth, and human well-being. Yet large gaps in levels of education persist across different groups, often for generations. Why?This book argues that culture specifically, community norms about schooling plays a central role in explaining the persistence of educational inequality across groups. Melina R. Platas uses the case of the Muslim-Christian education gap in Africa, where Muslims have on average three fewer years of education than Christians, to examine the origins and persistence of educational inequality. She documents the colonial origins of this gap and develops a cultural theory of its persistence, focusing on the case studies of Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda. Pla.