Education and Social Transition in the Third World

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Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occurring in five peripheral countries--China, Cuba, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Nicaragua--commonly viewed as in transition to socialism. Current political patterns and leadership in these countries have eme

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"The impressive study by Martin Carnoy, Joel Samoff, and their collaborators is an invaluable theoretical and empirical analysis of educational policy and its role in the social transformation of Third World societies."--Contemporary Sociology