Education, Cultures, and Economics: Dilemmas for Development

by Little,Angela W.

• ISBN13: 9780815327837
• ISBN10: 0815327838
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote cultural goals, the differentiation of schools from other sites of cultural reproduction, learning experiences of various cultural groups, and the cross-cultural work of development agencies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Series Editor's Foreword	ix
About the Contributors	xi
Part I Introduction
Development and Education: Cultural and Economic Analysis	3	(30)
Angela Little
Economics and Culture: Towards an Anthropology of Economics	33	(16)
R. L. Stirrat
Meanings of Culture in Development: A Case Study from Literacy	49	(20)
Brian V. Street
Different Eyes: Schooling and Indigenous Education in Tonga	69	(12)
Konai Helu-Thaman
Part II The Economic and Cultural Goals of Development: Whose Goals Matter?
Learning versus Development: A Palestinian Perspective	81	(14)
Munir Fasheh
Alternative Development and Education: Economic Interests and Cultural Practices in the Amazon	95	(16)
Sheila Aikman
Local Accountability to Rural Communities: A Challenge for Educational Planning in Africa	111	(32)
Robert Serpell
Part III The Costs of Culture and the Culture of Costs
Language Policy in Ethiopian Education: Implications for the Costs of Textbook Production	143	(16)
Christine McNab
Peter Stoye
The Costs of Culture: Some Dilemmas for Educational Investment in Mauritius	159	(24)
Keith Lewin
Community Financing of Education: Cultural Variations and Policy Dilemmas in Less Developed Countries	183	(20)
Mark Bray
Educational Financing Strategies in Developing Countries: The Case of Cameroon and Uganda	203	(22)
Mercy Tembon
Educating Girls in Pakistan: Tensions Between Economics and Culture	225	(16)
Iffat Farah
Kazim Bacchus
Part IV Cultures of Knowledge and Learning
Alternative Cultures of Knowledge in Higher Education in the Australia-Pacific Region	241	(20)
J.I. Teasdale
G.R. Teasdale
Cultural Ambiguity and the Primary School Teacher: Lessons from Rural Mozambique	261	(22)
Mikael Palme
Economic Imperatives and Cultural Discontinuities in Science Education: A View from the Solomon Islands	283	(18)
John Lowe
Cultural Perceptions of the Role of Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Economic Development: Examples from Kenya	301	(14)
Florence Kiragu Nyamu
Women and Mathematics: Ignoring a Majority?	315	(12)
Mary Harris
Education, Social Identity, and Occupational Aspirations in Brazil: Reasons for (Not) Learning	327	(20)
Terezinha Nunes
Antonio Roazzi
Part V Dilemmas for Educational Aid
Whose Rules Apply? Educational Project Management in Less Developed Countries: Cultural Considerations	347	(24)
Michael Delens
Dilemmas Between Economics and Culture in Educational Aid: Lessons for Donors	371	(24)
Fiona Leach
Index	395