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Tikly, Leon – Comparative Education, 2001
A literature review on the origins, nature, and future of globalization and implications for education found little of relevance for low-income, postcolonial countries. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, a conceptual framework suggests how developing nations' educational policies are influenced by legacies of colonial education, the position of…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Development

Bakar, Abdourahim Said – Comparative Education, 1988
Discusses the sociocultural context of education in the Comoro Islands, where effects of French colonization combine with Islamic influences. Examines education and cultural changes under French colonialism prior to independence in 1975. Since then, political changes resulted in establishment of French and South African hegemony. One table, 5…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Differences, Educational Change, Foreign Countries