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Peer reviewedKelly, Gail P. – Comparative Education, 1979
It has been assumed that colonial schooling systems were always poor quality reproductions of the educational system in the colonizing (metropolitan) power. This paper compares the structures and curricula of colonial and metropolitan schools, finding not a reproduction, but a hierarchy, with the metropolitan school on top. (SJL)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Download full textAbel, James F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
The period under review reported in this bulletin, approximately the years 1924, 1925, and 1926, are of significance in education in that they are a part of the reconstruction, postwar time that was marked in its earlier months by strong enthusiasm and a general freedom of conception, when fine plans for educational systems--by no means impossible…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Foreign Countries
Abel, James F. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
The purpose of the Biennial Survey of Education in the United States is to present to the people of this Nation a picture, as complete and accurate as possible, of the many types of education they finance, administer, and maintain. But this isolated picture is not enough. The worth, activity, and progress of any system of schools are relative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Surveys, International Education
