In addition I should like to thank the Education Secretaries General and other personnel of the five national educational voluntary agencies that were operating in 1965-6: the Christian Council of Tanganyika; the Education Department of His Highness the Aga Khan; the East African Muslim Welfare Society; the Tanganyika African Parents Associa- tion; and the Tanganyika Episcopal Conference. [...] The close identification of education with politics, particularly in the countries of Africa and Asia, is of interest to the student of politics in a number of ways. [...] As James Coleman notes, "there is now a vastly broadened basis for fruitful dialogue regarding the education- polity relationship on such questions as the role of education in the formation of attitudes, values, and personality; in the recruitment of elites; and in socio-political change."` In fact, since the publication of his book of readings on Education and Political Development in 1965, many [...] The rate of growth during the Three Year Plan period was insufficient to raise the real income per capita much above the desperately low level of Q0 per annum; in fact, after a fall in 1961, the 1960 level was not reattained until 196322 The plan's lack of direction and purpose stimulated the govern- ment, and the President in particular, to define an approach to development. [...] Within a week of releasing the document, the government nationalized the banks, the major flour milling and import-export companies, and the insurance trade, and announced its intention of acquiring controlling interests in several manufacturing firms and sisal plantations.40 The suddenness of these moves and later nationalization measures (including the expropriation of houses and buildings in 19
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 2
- Copyright 3
- Preface 4
- Contents 7
- Tables 8
- Abbreviations 11
- Chapters 13
- 1. Introduction 13
- PART I: THE COLONIAL AND NATIONALIST LEGACIES 38
- 2. Education and Colonial Society 39
- 3. The Impact of Nationalism 65
- PART II: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 87
- 4. The Framework for Policy-making and Administration 88
- 5. Growth in Educational Provision 103
- 6. The Politics of Primary School Expansion 121
- 7. Education and Social Structure 156
- 8. The Primary School Leavers Crisis 188
- 9. Education and Political Socialization 208
- 10. The National Service Dispute 230
- PART III : A NEW APPROACH 245
- 11. Education for Self-Reliance 246
- 12. Conclusion: a Theoretical Overview 298
- Appendices 306
- I. A Note on Survey Data 307
- II. Government Expenditures 309
- III. Statistics and Statistical Assumptions relating to Regional and District Disparities in Primary School Provision 311
- Select Bibliography 317
- Index 331
