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Schooling in the modern world has a multiple agenda: the promotion of economic progress, the trans-generational transmission of culture, and the cultivation of children's intellectual and moral development. This 1933 study explores the difficulties of achieving a synthesis of these objectives, in a case study of a rural African community.Robert Serpell is the author of 'The Significance of Schooling: Life-Journeys in an African Society', published 1993 under ISBN 9780521394789 and ISBN 0521394783.
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