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Minimum learning needs for the Third World: New panacea or new problems?

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  1. See, for example, the following: Unesco/Unicef,Basic Education in Eastern Africa (Report on a Seminar, Nairobi, 1974); Papers of the IIEP/SIDA Seminar on ‘Planning Problems in Rural Education’, Paris, Unesco, October 1975; H. M. Phillips,Basic Education —A World Challenge, London, John Wiley, 1975.

  2. For an example of this all-or-nothing approach, see J. K. Lindsay, ‘Education and Under-development: An Aspect of the Politics of Education’ (IIEP/SIDA Seminar paper, op. cit. ‘Planning Problems in Rural Education’, Paris, Unesco, October 1975).

  3. The most suggestive source for new attitudes to older learning systems are the publications on non-formal education of the International Council for Educational Development.

  4. It will, nevertheless, be important to follow development in Somalia's Nomadic Education Scheme where the traditional ‘Herr’ school Koranic instructors will be upgraded through special training.

  5. For an example of the interaction of local skill acquisition with training in other sectors of the economy, see Kenneth King,The African Artisan: A Study of Training, Technology and the Informal Sector in Kenya, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, Centre of African Studies, 1975.

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  6. Basic Education in Eastern Africa, op. cit. (Report on a Seminar, Nairobi, 1974); Papers of the IIEP/SIDA Seminar on ‘Planning Problems in Rural Education’, Paris, Unesco, October 1975, p. 19.

  7. For a useful discussion of the various aspects of basic education, see H. M. Phillips, ‘What is Meant by Basic Education’ (IIEP/SIDA Seminar paper, op. cit. ‘Planning Problems in Rural Education’, Paris, Unesco, October 1975).

  8. See IIEP'sPlanning of the Location of Schools: Case Studies; also, for one of the very few how-to-do-it pamphlets, see W. A. Dodd,Primary School Inspection in New Countries, Oxford, 1968.

  9. See the reports of the two missions to Africa of the Phelps-Stokes team:Education in Africa (1922) andEducation in Eastern Africa (1925).

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    Kenneth King (Lecturer in African Studies)

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Research and teaching experience in Kenya and Ethiopia. Author ofPanafricanism, and Education, andThe African Artisan: A Study of Training Technology and the Informal Sector in Kenya.

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King, K. Minimum learning needs for the Third World: New panacea or new problems?. Prospects 6, 39–56 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02220131

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