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This chapter begins with a discussion of the nature of quality in education of education and notes the presence of many good quality schools in Africa The chapter then discusses the different types of financial resources for schooling before going on to discuss teachers and their working conditions. Teacher professionalism and unprofessionalism is then discussed as well as the roles of teacher education and school management in improving teacher professionalism. The final section of the chapter deals with physical resources in schools—the relationship between teacher salaries and monies for physical resources, shortages of basic resources—buildings, textbooks, water, electricity, desks and toilets are each discussed as are double-shift schooling and school feeding programmes.
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Harber, C. (2017). Human and Material Resources: Finance, Teachers and Physical Resources. In: Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57382-3_4
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