Lumps of Clay and Growing Plants: Dominant Metaphors of the Role of Education in the Third World, 1950-1980.

Zachariah, Mathew

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Publication Date: 1985

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Lumps of Clay and Growing Plants: Dominant Metaphors of the Role of Education in the Third World, 1950-1980.

Zachariah, Mathew

Comparative Education Review, v29 n1 p1-21 Feb 1985

During the 1950s-60s, a "people as clay" metaphor undergirded the most widely accepted English-language, predominantly North American writings on education for Third World development. Writings based on "people as growing plants" challenged the earlier writings from the late 1960s-late 1970s. Late 1970s developments have helped to blunt this challenge. (BRR)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitudes, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Foundations of Education, Intellectual History, Metaphors, Political Influences, Role of Education

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