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Author Politics and Education (1981 : Santa Barbara, CA)

Title Politics and education : cases from eleven nations / edited by R. Murray Thomas
Edition First edition
Published Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1983

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Description xiii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
regular print
Series Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies.
Contents The symbiotic linking of politics and education / R. Murray Thomas -- Part I. Strategies for using education to achieve political ends. West Germany: educational policy as compensatory legitimation / Hans N. Weiler -- Zaire : the state and the university / James S. Coleman and Ndolamb Ngokwey -- Nicaragua : educational opportunity and pre- and post-revolutionary conditions . Richard J. Kraft -- The United States of America : the languages of education : new ethnicity and the drive to power / Nathan Kravetz -- Part II. Patterns of majority-minority group relations. The People's Republic of China : educational policy and national minorities : the politics of intergroup relations / John N. Hawkins -- Malaysia : cooperation versus competition : or national unity versus favored access to education / R. Murray Thomas -- Jamaica : education and the maintenance of the social-class system / John J. Cogan -- Part III. Multiple group influences on educational decisions. Israel : political roots and effects of two educational decisions . Naftaly D. Clasman -- England and Wales : muted educational confrontations in a parliamentary democracy / Susanne M. Shafer -- Canada : educational decisions within a mosaic of interest groups / David L. Stoloff -- Cameroon : regional, ethnic, and religious influences on a post-colonial education system / William M. Rideout, Jr. -- Lessens from the 11 nations / Laurence Iannoccone
Analysis Education and state Congresses Case studies
Education Congresses Political aspects Case studies
Notes "A product of the Comparative and International Education Society's western regional conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at the close of 1981"--Pref
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Education and state -- Case studies -- Congresses.
Education and state -- Case studies.
Education -- Political aspects -- Case studies -- Congresses.
Education -- Political aspects -- Case studies.
Education -- Political aspects.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Thomas, R. Murray (Robert Murray), 1921-
Comparative and International Education Society.
LC no. 82011296
ISBN 0080289045 (paperback)
0080289053
Other Titles Politics & education