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Title:Impact of Arusha Declaration on higher education in Tanzania
Author:Itandala, A.B.
Year:1989
Periodical:The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs (ISSN 0856-0056)
Volume:16
Issue:1-2
Pages:1-9
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Tanzania
East Africa
Subjects:socialism
Arusha Declaration
universities
ujamaa
education
higher education
Abstract:This paper examines what has happened at the University of Dar es Salaam since the introduction of the Arusha Declaration in 1967 in order to show how the policy of socialism and self-reliance has affected higher education in general in Tanzania during the last twenty years. The author examines the three stages the University has passed through since its inception in 1961. The first phase was the pre-1967 period during which the University functioned first as an affiliate college of the University of London and, since 1963, as a constituent college of the University of East Africa. Academically it was dominated by the so-called 'Africanist' or 'nationalist' stream of Western scholarship in the social sciences. The second phase was the 1967 to 1970 period which, as a result of the introduction of the Arusha Declaration and the breakup of the University of East Africa, was characterized by serious debates about the role of the University in the development of a country aspiring to become socialist. The third phase was the post-1970 period during which attempts were made to depart from previous trends in both teaching and research in order to accommodate the policy of socialism and self-reliance. The author concludes that modest achievements have been made in the definition of the political objectives of higher education, the restructuring of courses, the localization of teaching staff, the introduction of a materialist approach in both teaching and research and the introduction of political education. Notes, ref.
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