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One of the main concerns of Senegalese secondary school students is the choice and acquisition of a profession.l Investigations on the subject in the past few years have included studies on Chad, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.2 Our purpose here is to delineate the motives for the choices and to examine the students' attitudes towards those who do not attend school. Like most of those mentioned above, this study also considers the variables of sex, age, and father's socio-economic status.
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The subject of the place of Palestine and Zionism in the pre-1948 American Jewish community has received much attention in recent American Jewish history.^ Surprisingly, however, research on this subject has usually neglected the Jewish educational context. The neglect of this domain is unfortunate, for there is, in fact, a significant body of primary resources related to the place of Palestine and Zionism in American Jewish education, which would seem to comprise a promising resource for...
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1979 was a year of impending change — change that was without form or concept. Speculation was rife while planners anxiously awaited policy direction. At that time we felt the need to point out certain realities in Zimbabwe’s education and employment potentiality, and to distinguish facts from the fantasies. In this paper we have identified four major premises which underlie existing educational and employment strategies. We call these ‘conventional wisdoms’; and in them we have...
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Several problems come to the fore when national culture with all its complexity is reviewed. The term Black Englishman' ' alludes to the regrettable fact that an educated wananchi is so immersed in a foreign culture that he appears to have lost sight of his identity. If this were true can foreign cultural influences be stopped or minimized? To what extent can indigenous culture be promoted without restricting the drive towards modernisation?
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Abstract The South African guidance service is an example of the way in which the population can be manipulated when a guidance service is used to serve the political and economic ends of a ruling group. The South African government views the guidance service as an ‘auxiliary education service’, the function of which is to ensure conformity to the official Christian National Education policy for White schools. ‘Pedagogy’ provides a theoretical explanation for deviance from Christian National...
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Abstract The South African guidance service is an example of the way in which the population can be manipulated when a guidance service is used to serve the political and economic ends of a ruling group. The South African government views the guidance service as an ‘auxiliary education service’, the function of which is to ensure conformity to the official Christian National Education policy for White schools. ‘Pedagogy’ provides a theoretical explanation for deviance from Christian National...