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Education's Role in National Development Plans Ten Country Cases
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R. Murray Thomas
Book Code: C3991
ISBN: 0-275-93991-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-93991-5
304 pages, maps
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/1992
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
LC Card Number: 91-33158
LCC Class: LC71
Dewey Class: 379.1
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