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Title: | Secondary Education: A 'Tool' for National Development in Ghana. A Critical Appraisal of the Post-Colonial Context |
Author: | Quist, Hubert O. |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Pages: | 186-210 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Ghana West Africa |
Subjects: | development secondary education Education and Oral Traditions Development and Technology Economics and Trade History and Exploration education Economic and social development decolonization |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24482700 |
Abstract: | The present article appraises the role of secondary education as a 'tool' for national development in postcolonial Ghana. In so doing, it analyses the problems of secondary education provision focusing on funding and reform. The author argues that - notwithstanding the World Bank's present support for universal primary education throughout Africa, a project commenced in Ghana as early as 1951, which represents a major shift from the Bank's previous endorsement (1960s) of university education as the panacea to Africa's development challenges - secondary education remains vital to Ghana's development aspirations. As the most accessible form of higher education in Ghana today, increased attention to, and expansion of secondary education has a greater potential than primary education of sustaining literacy levels attained, raising political awareness and thus advancing democracy, as well as supplying sufficient middle-level manpower crucial to national development. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |