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ERIC ED269343: Educational Developmentalism in Nigeria: Education for the Masses or Just Mass Education?

A free and pluralistic society is maintained by constitutional guarantees and an educated populace. Nigeria, like other nations in West Africa, spent billions of dollars and embarked on a program of mass educational improvement in the 1960's and 1970's. While secondary school enrollment increased eleven times between 1962 and 1975, over half the candidates on the West African Examinations Council secondary test failed. This indicates a failure of the Nigerian educational policy of "developmentalism," which states that centralized educational reform is the quickest and surest way to bring about…

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	ERIC
Date	1985-01-01
Type	texts
Details	ia title
Found at	https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED269343
Archived copy	Look it up in the Wayback Machine
Record ID	`internet-archive:ERIC_ED269343`

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ERIC ED269343: Educational Developmentalism in Nigeria: Education for the Masses or Just Mass Education?. Internet Archive, 1985. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:ERIC_ED269343.