Education Policy Formation in Africa. A Comparative Study of Five Countries

摘要

This study, the first in a planned series of desk studies aiming to create afoundation for dialogue with African policymakers, sets the stage by describing and analyzing approaches currently being used to formulate education policy in African countries. The report includes five case studies, reflecting developments up till late 1992 in Botswana, Tanzania, Uganda, Mali, and Senegal, and two overview chapters that discuss common characteristics of the education policy formation process in Anglophone and Francophone Africa; each of the overview chapters summarizes lessons learned from the case studies and the experience of the authors, and discusses some of the implications of these lessons for improving policy formation.