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Educational aid, symbolic power and policy reform: the world bank in Ethiopia

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posted on 2019-11-01, 00:00 authored by Tebeje Molla MekonnenTebeje Molla Mekonnen
The World Bank uses a combination of financial and non-financial aid to influence educational reform in aid-recipient countries. Drawing on an interpretive policy analysis methodology and using Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic power as a ‘thinking tool’, this article aims to shed light on the Bank’s non-financial pathways of policy influence in the Ethiopian higher education policy space. Specifically, it identifies knowledge-based policy regulatory instruments of the Bank, including sector reviews, advisory activities, analytical reports and learning events. The key argument is that in order to understand the full extent of donor power in national education policy fields in sub-Saharan Africa, it is imperative to problematize less visible discursive means of policy imposition.

History

Journal

London review of education

Volume

17

Issue

3

Pagination

331 - 346

Publisher

U C L - I O E Press

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

1474-8460

eISSN

1474-8479

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal