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Title:Can Education Be Used as a Tool to Build a Socialist Society in Africa? The Tanzanian Case
Author:Ergas, Zaki R.ISNI
Year:1982
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:20
Issue:4
Period:December
Pages:571-594
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:socialism
educational policy
ujamaa
Education and Oral Traditions
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/160339
Abstract:Aim of this article is to uncover and explain the logic behind the failure of socialist educational reforms in Tanzania. The core argument is the following: their success was predicated upon the creation of a socialist society in Tanzania which, in fact, has not materialised; in the absence of such a society, reforms designed to achieve equality, socialist values and attitudes were bound to fail. This analysis is made on three specific grounds: Tanzania does not have the resources to build and manage a socialist society with a reasonable degree of efficiency; the theoretical framework, developed by the 'New Sociologists of Education' (here for the first time applied to an African context) helps to explain the implacable processes by which the dominant groups of society control and even mould behaviour in the schools; their is an enormous gap between the rhetoric and policies of education on the one hand, and their implementation and reality on the other. Notes.
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