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Devolution and Public University Infrastructure Development in Kenya: A Post-2000 Rights-Based Development Agenda

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Globalisation and Education Reforms

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This chapter examines university sector development in Kenya in the post-2000 period. This is a period characterized by convergence in the shift towards majimbo (regionalism) in political democratization and a return to mitigated Keynesianism. The recent rapid expansion in public university sector infrastructure offers a window into understanding the significance of the articulation of political representation and ethnic rights in the post-2000 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This period also intersects with the World Bank shift in education sector funding policy toward an accommodation of governmental intervention in the financing of tertiary education systems. The analysis employs a contested meaning of the actualization of both neoliberalism and world culture theories in the local context. The findings reaffirm the changing and yet dominant influence of globally structured institutions in defining development ideology. Further, the nature of university sector expansion in post-2000 Kenya demonstrates the localization of globally diffused ideologies in ways that allows for contradictions amongst elements of the original ideal that is free-market capitalism and democracy.

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Omwami, E.M. (2018). Devolution and Public University Infrastructure Development in Kenya: A Post-2000 Rights-Based Development Agenda. In: Zajda, J. (eds) Globalisation and Education Reforms. Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1204-8_7

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