Education's Role in National Development Plans: Ten Country Cases
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...
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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 have encountered in managing education.
PrefaceThe Nature of National-Development Planning by R. Murray ThomasSocialism in the USSR and Eastern EuropeThe Soviet Union by Rosalind Latiner RabyThe German Democratic Republic by Susanne M. ShaferPlanning in Islamic SocietiesPakistan by Nasir Jalil & Noel F. McGinnEgypt by Amin A. Elmallah & Kal GeziEast Asian NationsThe People's Republic of China by Julie Chuang & R. Murray ThomasSouth Korea by Hee Won SohAdjacent Island SocietiesIndonesia by R. Murray ThomasPapua New Guinea by Mark BraySubsahara African NationsTanzania by R. Murray ThomasZaire by Barbara A. YatesLessons Learned by R. Murray ThomasIndex
