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Can community participation mobilise social capital for improvement of rural schooling? A case study from Ghana

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posted on 2023-06-08, 07:06 authored by John Pryor
This article uses a case study of rural education in Ghana to investigate an important element of the decentralisation agenda - community participation in schooling. Drawing on a theoretical framework derived from Bourdieu, it argues that schooling and community life are two distinct and differently structured fields. The research demonstrates how this acts as a severe constraint on attempts to mobilise community social capital for the improvement of the school. The position is further complicated by specific postcolonial socio-cultural conditions and a view of community that does not correspond with people's experience. The article concludes by arguing that if community participation is desirable in itself, then the state, through the school, should be active in trying to create it, rather than looking to the community to develop the school.

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  • Published

Journal

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

ISSN

0305-7925

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

2

Volume

35

Page range

193-203

Pages

11.0

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  • Education Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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