The open organization: a new era of leadership and organizational development
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In: International library of sociology and social reconstruction
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 201-236
ISSN: 1469-7777
Fewwould disagree with the observation that the schools and universities of sub-Saharan Africa are perhaps the most important contemporary mechanisms of stratification and redistribution on the continent. They are not simply reflections of extant patterns of social and economic differentiation, but rather powerful independent forces in the creation of new and emergent groupings based on the variable possession of power, wealth, and prestige. Moreover, in using the word 'contemporary' we should not overlook the fact that formal educational systems are not a recent phenomenon in Africa. Schools existed on the western littoral in the eighteenth century, and their development in many parts of Africa, though slow up to the beginning of World War II, was of great significance. However, the African 'educational explosion' is largely a post-war phenomenon, and as a result we can no longer regard the school as an alien and intrusive institution perched precariously atop a range of predominantly 'traditional' societies. In most parts of Africa, the school is now as familiar a part of the local scene as the corrugated iron roof. Virtually everywhere, a whole generation would think it inconceivable to be without schools and, what is more, though Africa still remains the least formally educated of the continents, almost everyone now has a lively sense of the individual benefits that education can bring. As in other areas of social life, Africans perceive schooling in shrewd, pragmatic, and instrumental terms.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 80, Heft 4, S. 1064-1067
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 78, Heft 2, S. 480-482
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Journal of political economy, Band 79, Heft 2, S. 385-386
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 72, Heft 5, S. 1120-1121
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 95-96
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 568-570
ISSN: 1469-7777
Perhaps a major decision that must be made by the organisers of professional conferences is whether to structure them in terms of a particular theme or alternatively to allow for a wide diversity of presentation and topics. If the former course is followed there is some danger that specificity of focus will be achieved at the expense of over-all attendance, but this did not appear to be the case at the recent meeting of the A.S.A., attended by over ioo members. Fortunately, the subject of the conference, 'Education in Africa: current experiment and research', was itself diffuse enough to enable contributions to be forthcoming from a wide variety of disciplines and from scholars whose research preoccupations were extremely diverse.
In: Population: revue bimestrielle de l'Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques. French edition, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 558
ISSN: 0718-6568, 1957-7966
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 68, Heft 6, S. 703-704
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 70, Heft 3, S. 349-362
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Revue française de sociologie, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 32
In: The journal of development studies, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 59-81
ISSN: 1743-9140