Education and Social Change in Ghana (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Foster, P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1998. As the first of the newly independent nations of Africa, Ghana has received fulsome attention from scholars in many fields. In this intensive case study on educational development by two principal considerations. The documentary materials relating to the earlier history of the Gold Coast and adjacent areas were unusually extensive and well organized. Ghana now possesses the most elaborated school system in sub-Saharan Africa. But the expansion of this system has given rise to many perplexing problems and revealed many unexpected consequences, and the author suggests that similar experiences will be the lot of many other countries, even outside Africa. So this is not just study of Ghanaian education alone but a case study wherein some of the basic processes underlying educational growth in states newly emerging from colonial rule are delineated.This is Volume III of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1965. As the first of the newly independent nations of Africa, Ghana has received fulsome attention from scholars in many fields. In this intensive case study on educational development by two principal considerations. The documentary materials relating to the earlier history of the Gold Coast and adjacent areas were unusually extensive and well organized. Ghana now possesses the most elaborated school system in sub-Saharan Africa. But the expansion of this system has given rise to many perplexing problems and revealed many unexpected consequences, and the author suggests that similar experiences will be the lot of many other countries, even outside Africa. So this is not just study of Ghanaian education alone but a case study wherein some of the basic processes underlying educational growth in states newly emerging from colonial rule are delineated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136235108
• Artikelnr.: 39448922

Autorenporträt

P. Foster

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Nature of the 'Colonial Situation'-The Functional Consequences of
Educational Transfer PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND I. SOME DIMENSIONS
OF TRADITIONAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE II. THE GROWTH OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE UNTIL
1850 III. THE 'GOLDEN AGE' OF THE GOLD COAST IV. THE DYNAMICS OF
EDUCATIONAL GROWTH IN THE LATECOLONIAL PERIOD V. PROBLEMS OF EDUCATIONAL
POLICY IN THE LATE COLONIAL PERIOD PART TWO: THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE VI.
SELF-GOVERNMENT AND INDEPENDENCE-THE FIRST DECADE VII. ACHIEVEMENT,
SELECTION, AND RECRUITMENT IN GHANAIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS VIII. THE
ASPIRATIONS OF SECONDARY-SCHOOL PUPILS IX. SOME COMMENTS ON PRESENT AND
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS