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ERIC ED051751: Intellect and Commitment: A Potential for Educational Change in the New Nations.

This paper discusses the educational orientations and concerns of African intellectuals in U.S. institutions of higher education, and assesses the relationship of such orientations to the perceptions of problems and processes of social change in African countries. Information was obtained from all students from Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria attending Pacific Coast institutions. The results of the survey indicated that more than half of the respondents favored educational change in the African countries. Forty-eight percent of the pro-change group favored the establishment of indigenous u…