Research Catalog

Title

Textbooks in the Third World : policy, content, and context / [edited by] Philip G. Altbach, Gail P. Kelly.

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Altbach, Philip G.
• Kelly, Gail Paradise.

Description

xii, 277 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Garland reference library of social science ; vol. 450. Reference books in international education ; 4

Uniform Title

• Garland reference library of social science ; v. 450.
• Garland reference library of social science. Reference books in international education ; vol. 4.

Subject

• Textbooks > Developing countries
• Education and state > Developing countries
• Education and state
• Textbooks
• Schulbuch
• Bildungspolitik
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 269-272

Contents

Part I. The policy context -- Textbooks and the Third World : an overview / Philip G. Altbach and Gail P. Kelly -- Textbooks in developing countries : economic and pedagogical choices / Joseph P. Farrell and Stephen P. Heyneman -- Textbooks in Third World higher education / Philip G. Altbach and S. Gopinathan -- The politics of textbook selection and control : the case of interwar Indochina and West Africa / Gail P. Kelly -- The origins of India's textbook culture / Krishna Kumar -- Part II. Content and curriculum -- Gender and textbooks : an African case study / Karen L. Biraimah -- The quest for national unity : language textbooks in Malaysia / Hena Mukherjee and Khairiah Ahmed -- Language and texts in Africa / Dennis Mbuyi -- Language and the content of school texts : the Nigerian experience / Chuka Eze Okonkwo -- Curriculum in action : mathematics in China's elementary schools / Julia Kwong -- Textbooks in revolutionary Iran / M. Mobin Shorish.

ISBN

• 0824042948
• 9780824042943

LCCN

88021825

OCLC

• ocm18191098
• 18191098
• SCSB-9108997

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library