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African social stratification
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Author_Patrick M. Boyle
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Civil Society
class-based educational access Africa
Colonial Administration
Congolese State
Congolese Youth
Cost Sharing Policies
Denominational Schools
educational inequality Africa
elite reproduction education
Elite Theory
Emerging Civil Societies
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Harambee Schools
Ivory Coast
Large Trade Establishments
Mobutu Regime
National School System
NGO Activity
NGO Operation
parental school choice
postcolonial state dysfunction
Primary School Sector
Private Education
Private Primary Schools
private schooling systems
Public Sector Schools
Sub-Saharan Africa
SubSaharan Africa
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Product details
- ISBN 9781138617674
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance their offspring’s chances for survival and even domination in a world of scarce resources and limited opportunities for employment, elites see private schools as tools to shape newly emerging civil societies in Africa in their own image. From a theoretical perspective, the fresh evidence presented here shows that schooling has once again become a major social force influencing the balance of state and society in modern Africa. Re-examining an older political tradition of class analysis and integrating it into more recent civil society perspectives, the author shows that the abandonment of the unreliable education services of dysfunctional African states in favour of private schools has profound consequences for class articulation in societies dividing, once again, according to educational opportunities.
