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Author Carnoy, Martin.

Title Education and Social Transition in the Third World.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (425 pages).
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Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Cover; Contents; Part I: Education and Transition: Theory and Method; 1. The Search for Method; Part II: TheCase Studies; Part III:Conclusions.
Summary Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occurring in five peripheral countries--China, Cuba, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Nicaragua--commonly viewed as in transition to socialism. Current political patterns and leadership in these countries have emerged in the context of predominantly agricultural, industrially underdeveloped economies. Each state has played a major role in social transformation, relying on the educational system to train, educate, and socialize its future citizens. Discussi.
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Subject Education and state -- Developing countries -- Cross-cultural studies.
Education and state.
Developing countries.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Social change -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
Social change.
Socialism and education -- Developing countries -- Cross-cultural studies.
Socialism and education.
Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Cross-cultural studies.
Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Samoff, Joel.
Other Form: Print version: Carnoy, Martin. Education and Social Transition in the Third World. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781400860692 (electronic book)
1400860695 (electronic book)