Strategies and Successes in Influencing Education Policy Change: A Case Study of the Tanzanian Education Network (TEN/MET)
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2007
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Civil society networks have emerged as potentially important actors in the
education policy of Southern countries since the new millennium. This thesis explores the
Tanzanian Education Network's (TEN/MET) ability to successfully impact education
policies and policy structures in Tanzania. It documents key examples of the network's
policy influence in education. Drawing on civil society network and social movement
theorists, the thesis explores both intra-network and relational strategies TEN/MET used
to affect change. Three stand out among them: the leveraging of a common voice, the
iterative use of complementary and contentious relations in the domestic sphere, and the
leveraging of international pressure to affect change domestically, also known as
boomerang strategy.
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EDUCATIONAL POLICY, TANZANIA, POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, POLICY MAKING, CIVIL SOCIETY, GOVERNANCE, SOCIAL NETWORKS