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Education for Development or Underdevelopment?: Guyana's Educational System and Its Implications for the Third World

Education for Development or Underdevelopment?: Guyana's Educational System and Its Implications for the Third World

Bacchus, M. K.

Paperback

Series: Development Perspectives, Book 2

General Education

ISBN10: 0889200858
ISBN13: 9780889200852
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 1980
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

How critical is education in the development struggle of a third world country? Responding to popular demands for more accessible education, the Guyanese government instituted numerous educational reforms, hoping to promote economic growth in both the modern and the traditional sectors of the economy. Many in the traditional sector, however, saw education as a means of economic advancement, and sought increasingly to move into higher social strata through employment in the modern sector. Consequently, the civil service and private firms gained an oversupply of personnel, while agriculture and small business suffered, and unemployment increased. The author examines Guyana's educational system from historical, political, social, and economic perspectives, and draws implications for other developing countries.

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