Adult Literacy for Social Equality or Economic Growth? Changing Agendas for Mass Literacy in China and Tanzania.

Stites, Regie; Semali, Ladislaus

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Publication Date: 1991

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Adult Literacy for Social Equality or Economic Growth? Changing Agendas for Mass Literacy in China and Tanzania.

Stites, Regie; Semali, Ladislaus

Comparative Education Review, v35 n1 p44-75 Feb 1991

The current economic development orientation of rural adult literacy education policy in China and Tanzania represents a break with earlier socialist commitments to social equity. These parallel policy shifts in China and Tanzania have been influenced by diverse political and economic factors, both internal and external. Contains 36 references. (SV)

Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Education, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Illiteracy, Literacy Education, Public Policy, Rural Education, Socialism

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: China; Tanzania

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