Education in non-western countries

Autor: Jan Van Baal
Rok vydání: 1964
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Zdroj: International Review of Education. 10:1-11
ISSN: 1573-0638
0020-8566
DOI: 10.1007/bf01421185
Popis: In every culture education is a form of transfer of culture from one generation to the next. In western civilization education has developed into one of the major concerns of society, keeping engaged huge numbers of professional specialists whose one and only task it is to educate the members of successive generations of children and adolescents. This kind of education has been institutionalized mainly in the school. Though school education is by no means restricted to western culture and has been applied in a number of other civilizations as well, western school education is unique in combining long duration and a widely extended curriculum on the one hand with its universal and compulsory application to all members of the younger generation on the other. Today this system of education is on its way to universal application. For reasons which need neither reiteration nor discussion modern school education is universally accepted as a primary condition for development and progress throughout the world. Within a few years the school, once a predominantly western institution, will be part of the basic experience of every child wherever in the world.
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