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Autor/in | Eisemon, Thomas Owen |
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Institution | State Univ. of New York, Buffalo. Comparative Education Center. |
Titel | Benefiting from Basic Education in Developing Countries: A Review of Research on the External Efficiency of Educational Investments. Special Studies in Comparative Education, Number Twenty. |
Quelle | (1987), (85 Seiten)
PDF als Volltext |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
ISBN | 0-937033-10-3 |
Schlagwörter | Basic Skills; Developing Nations; Economic Change; Economic Development; Educational Economics; Elementary Secondary Education; Family Planning; Foreign Countries; Foundations of Education; Human Capital; Human Resources; Literacy; Living Standards; Modernization; Productivity; Resource Allocation; Values Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ökonomischer Wandel; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Bildungsökonomie; Familienplanung; Ausland; Grundlagenausbildung; Humankapital; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Lebensstandard; Modernisierung; Produktivität; Ressourcenallokation; Wertbegriff |
Abstract | The effectiveness and efficiency of basic education in the Third World has aroused considerable debate. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on various aspects of Third World basic education. The literature review has been divided into four sections corresponding to the different domains of school outcomes: (1) the modernizing effects of schooling; (2) the effects of school-acquired literacy and numeracy on cognition; (3) the relationship between schooling and employment, earnings and productivity; (4) the relationship between schooling and such benefits as health, nutrition, and fertility control. A critique of the traditional "rate of return" analysis is also provided. The survey draws four major conclusions: that schooling may foster the adoption of modern values and beliefs that change perceptions of self and society; that school literacy fosters profound cognitive changes in the ability to employ and manipulate formal logical structures in reasoning with and from printed texts; that schooling may increase productive capacities, equipping individuals with skills valued in wage/salary employment and related to the production of foodstuffs with products and processes of modern technology; and that school participation improves health and lowers fertility mainly through these other combined effects. A list of 107 references is included. (TE) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2004/1/01 |