TY - BOOK AU - Gould, W. T. S TI - People and education in the Third World / SN - 0582005604 (Wiley) U1 - DC 379 1993 PY - 1993/// CY - Longman Scientific & Technical PB - New York, NY KW - Education -- Developing countries KW - Education -- Social aspects -- Developing countries KW - Economic development -- Effect of education on KW - Human geography -- Developing countries N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-226) and index; Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The scope of the text 1 Development studies and education 3 Geography and education 4 People and education in the Third World 5 A personal perspective 8 Ch. 1 The private and public demand for education 12 Private demand 13 Public demand 20 Voices of dissent 25 Ch. 2 Global patterns of education 31 Closing the global gap in enrolments 34 Girls' enrolment 44 International comparisons of quality 47 Expenditure on education 50 Global issues 52 Ch. 3 The geography of educational provision: the national scale 60 Schools as economic phenomena 61 Schools and the political system 64 Schools and society 65 Schools and culture 67 The education system as geographical phenomenon 68 National patterns of enrolment 72 Explanations of national patterns of inequality 80 The diffusionist paradigm 80 The underdevelopment paradigm 84 Reducing equality 86 Regional inequality: challenge or opportunity? 91 Ch. 4 The local scale: the school and the community 92 Schools and the geography of social provision 93 The journey to school 96 Population threshold and the size of school 101 Technical and political conflicts 104 Schools and the rural community 109 Vocational schools and rural development 117 Local management issues 121 Ch. 5 Education and population growth 123 Education and fertility 125 How education changes the value of children 125 Education in population policies 127 Education and mortality 134 Education and the demographic transition 141 Ch. 6 Human resource development 146 Education and human resource development 147 Manpower planning and the diploma disease 152 Northern Areas of Pakistan 154 Western Province, Kenya 163 Policies for human resource development 168 Ch. 7 Education and migration 170 Internal migration: selectivity by education 173 International migration: the brain drain 191 Ch. 8 Models of education and models of development 202 References 212 Index 227 ER -