This volume provides an international perspective on educational dependency in considering both theories and actual developments throughout the world. Some less developed countries, in expanding their education systems, have emulated Western academic-style systems and have increased their dependence on Western models in various respects including examination validation. Others have deliberately avoided this path and have experimented with systems more ‘relevant’ to development, often in a radical way. At a theoretical level, Marxist and neo-Marxist development theorists argue that education systems dependent on the West are evidence of economic dependency and confirmation of Marxist development theories; while others argue that the evidence suggests an interdependent world and that dependency theories do not apply in education.
1. Introduction: Dependence, Interdependence and Educational Development
. Issues and Perspectives
2. Dependence and Interdependence in Education An
Overview
3. Educational Dependency Two Lines of Enquiry
4. External and
Internal Obstacles to Educational Development National and Regional Case
Studies
5. Examination Reform and Educational Change in Sri Lanka, 1972-1982:
Modernisation or Dependent Underdevelopment?
6. Dependence or Independence in
Higher Education: Comments on the 1917 Calcutta University Commission
.Response and Commentary
7. Institutional Transfer and Educational
Dependency: An Indian Case Study
8. Dependency Perspectives On the Impact of
Education on Family Livelihood Strategies in Rural Areas of Andean America .
9. Knowledge and Culture in the Middle East: Some Critical Reflections
10.
The Meaning of Relevance in Education in Africa
11. Dark Side of the Moon A
Study in the Context of Passing or Failing First Year Examinations by African
Male Students in The University of Zimbabwe
12. Dependence and
Interdependence in The British Isles
13. Educational Inequality of Children
of Caribbean Background in Britain.
Keith Watson
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