THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCHOOLING by Robert Serpell ( 9780521144698 )

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Title:

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCHOOLING
LIFE-JOURNEYS IN AN AFRICAN SOCIETY

By:

Robert Serpell

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Paperback

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0521144698

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9780521144698

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 April, 2010

Pages:

364

Description:

This 1933 study explores the difficulties of meeting the multiple agenda of modern schooling in a case study of a rural African community.

Synopsis:

Schooling in the modern world has a multiple agenda: the promotion of economic progress, the transmission of culture from generation to generation, and the cultivation of children's intellectual and moral development. Originally published in 1993, this book explores the difficulties of achieving a synthesis of these objectives, in a case study of a rural African community. The analysis contrasts the indigenous perspective on child development with the formal educational model of cognitive growth. Teachers in the local primary school are shown to face the challenge of bicultural mediation, and the significance of schooling is discussed for each of the diverse individuals of the study in terms of his or her own reflections and interpretations. Two different attempts to activate a local dialogue about the school as a community resource are described and the implications for approaches to educational planning are explored.

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Cambridge University Press

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