Global Development - Education
- Created by: Harry
- Created on: 08-06-14 12:49
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- Education
- Modernisation Theory
- Should be universal; poor world should follow the model of Western meritocratic systems.
- Should play a vocational role to help overcome economic barriers. Durkheim/Parsons: Sort workers by ability into appropriate jobs.
- Shultz/Becker: Investment in industrial tech and infrastructure must be accompanied by investment in human expertise: equipment loses value over time, but education gains value.
- Knowledge of superstition and folklore is shifted towards more rational, scientific thought.
- Hoselitz: Meritocracy transmits values of individualism, competition and achievement.
- People-Centered Approaches
- Education should serve the needs of the people. Without basic skills, individuals can be exploited (land ownership being formalised in written contracts.
- Western system isn't appropriate to local contexts; destroying indigenous cultures.
- 'Improved not replaced'; build on existing education provision, to maintain local contexts.
- Neoliberalism
- Critical of any state provision of public services = raises taxation + undermines development.
- Discourages entrepreneurialism by reducing rewards.
- Creates conditions which are less attractive to TNC's.
- Advocate opening public services to the private sector; Provides services more efficiently without tax burden.
- Critical of any state provision of public services = raises taxation + undermines development.
- Dependency Theory
- Colonialism left education systems of the majority world stunted.
- Education systems were allowed to exist in order to manipulate local populations by buying off elites with free education.
- Debt has hindered the majority world's ability to invest in education, imposition of STP's has forced cut backs on public spending.
- Modernisation Theory
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