Education's role in national development plans : ten country cases

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Education's role in national development plans : ten country cases

edited by R. Murray Thomas

Praeger, 1992

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Papers presented at the 1990 Western Regional Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society

Includes bibliographical references and index

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The 1990s opened with dramatic readjustments in the world. Nations that had been governed for decades by single-party socialist regimes were suddenly rejecting their traditional systems of socioeconomic development, and new leaders were searching for modes of planning and management that could bring their people economic prosperity and political freedom. These events are of particular concern to educators who have been concerned over the past four decades with the effectiveness of the educational provisions inserted into national development programs. Such interest is not limited to Eastern bloc communist countries, but extends as well to other nations, socialist and capitalist alike, that have adopted centralized national planning. This book identifies the place that education has been assigned in the national development programs of a varied selection of nations--large and small, capitalist and socialist, industrialized and agrarian, Eastern and Western, Northern and Southern. The authors consider the problems these nations (Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic, Pakistan, Egypt, People's Republic of China, South Korea, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, and Zaire) have encountered in managing educational components, and assess the effectiveness of the plans and of the measures adopted for solving the educational problems.

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Preface The Nature of National-Development Planning by R. Murray Thomas Socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe The Soviet Union by Rosalind Latiner Raby The German Democratic Republic by Susanne M. Shafer Planning in Islamic Societies Pakistan by Nasir Jalil & Noel F. McGinn Egypt by Amin A. Elmallah & Kal Gezi East Asian Nations The People's Republic of China by Julie Chuang & R. Murray Thomas South Korea by Hee Won Soh Adjacent Island Societies Indonesia by R. Murray Thomas Papua New Guinea by Mark Bray Subsahara African Nations Tanzania by R. Murray Thomas Zaire by Barbara A. Yates Lessons Learned by R. Murray Thomas Index

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