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Educational change is not new to developing areas. But the idea has never been popular. This is so because of the fear of a lowering of standards; also the elitist expectations associated with white-collar jobs and schools have such a hold on the minds of third-world people that it becomes very difficult to effect change. However, the economic needs of developing countries make educational change a crucial necessity. The need for changes that will redress the present imbalance in the social status of the educated and the uneducated is also too obvious to need stressing. To most developing countries, therefore, the question is not whether there is need for change but what can be done to break the numerous vicious circles that the problem of educational change brings.
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Le changement éducationnel n'est pas une nouvelle idée dans les pays en voie de développement. Mais cette idée n'a jamais été très populaire. La crainte d'une baisse des niveaux, et les expectatives élitistes associées aux occupations et aux écoles de la classe moyenne, prennent tellement prise sur les gens du tier monde qu'il est très difficile d'effectuer des changements. Pourtant, à cause de leurs besoins économiques, le changement éducationnel est une nécessité critique dans les pays en voie de développement. Le besoin des changements qui rétabliraient le bilan entre le statut social des gens instruits et celui des gens qui n'ont pas reçu d'éducation est aussi bien évident. Dans la plupart des pays en voie de développement, c'est une question non pas du besoin des changements mais de ce que l'on peut faire pour briser les nombreux cercles vicieux qu'amène le problème du changement éducationnel.
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Blege, W. Alternatives in education in a developing country: The Ghana case. Interchange 2, 62–70 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02140866
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