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Problems of costs and opportunities

  • Viewpoints and Controversies: Reconsidering ‘Learning to be’
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  1. M. Debeauvais,Education and Employment. Series B:Opinions, No. 22, Unesco, 1971.

  2. Cf.Review of Radical Political Economics, University of Michigan.

  3. Cf. B. Ahamad and M. Blaug (ed.)The Practice of Manpower Forecasting, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1973. See also ‘Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery’, Center for Urban Education, Praeger, N.Y., 1970.

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  4. Cf. Recent research on this subject in the United States (L. Hansen and B. Weisbrode, etc.), Canada (R. Judy), France (J. Bénard) and Colombia (J. P. Jallade).

  5. The Department of Education of the University of Vincennes has organized several discussion meetings on the Report. The topics for reflection which were developed in this context have a bearing on the following points in particular: is it possible and desirable to attempt to outline an educational policy which will be relevant to all countries, and disregarding contradictory relations with other fields of development? Does the ‘we’ used by the Commission refer to the point of view of an author, or of a higher authority? Can a ‘committee of wise men’ go beyond (or ignore) the relationships of force and domination, and international ideological, social and inter-personal conflicts, in order to take up its stand at the level of a higher universal truth, transcending such conflicts? What is the practical significance of the reforms advocated on these grounds? Can the social sciences be ignored as instruments of analysis, or reduced to a few eclectic allusions illustrating a didactic discourse?

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  1. University of Paris VIII, Vincennes, France

    Michel Debeauvais (Professor)

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Director of Studies ath the École Pratique des Hautes Études; Member of the International Institute of Educational Planning. Gonsultant to the OECD Development Centre. Author of publications and articles on educational and manpower planning.

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Debeauvais, M. Problems of costs and opportunities. Prospects 3, 307–316 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198524

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