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Politics and Education

Cases from Eleven Nations

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1983
  • Editor: R. Murray Thomas
  • Language: English
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 4 7 9 6 - 3

Politics and Education: Cases from eleven nations tackles the relationship between politics and education. The book presents several dimensions of the politics-education… Read more

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Politics and Education: Cases from eleven nations tackles the relationship between politics and education. The book presents several dimensions of the politics-education relationship, such as the use of education in achieving political agendas and the effects of the interest of a political group on educational policy. The book present cases from 11 different countries that show the interaction between education and politics, such as the use of educational policy as a compensatory legitimation in West Germany; the educational opportunity under pre- and post-revolutionary condition in Nicaragua; and the education and the maintenance of the social-class system in Jamaica. The text will be of great interest to readers concerned with the implication of political agendas for the education system of a country.