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The Diploma Disease Education, Qualification and Development

Paperback • 1997 • English • 2. edition

The Diploma Disease Education, Qualification and Development

By Ronald Dore

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About the book

Schools used to be for educating people, for developing minds and characters. Today, as jobs depend more and more on certificates, degrees and diplomas, aims and motives are changing. Schooling has become more and more a ritualised process of qualification-earning. Professor Dore traces the underlying causes of this change through the educational histories of Britain, Japan, Sri Lanka and Kenya. He shows how the 'late development effect' makes what is a worrying problem for the rich countries in...Show more

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ISBN

9780854734986

Publisher

Institute of Education, University of London

Published year

1997

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

The Diploma Disease Education, Qualification and Development

Format

Paperback

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