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ERIC Number: EJ265019
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982
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Education and Consumption in Maragoli (Kenya): Households' Educational Strategies.
Martin, C. J.
Comparative Education, v18 n2 p139-55 1982
Using field data from South Maragoli (Western Kenya), explains households' high outlay on school fees and the sustained popular demand for educational expansion in the context of the erosion of subsistence production and consumption in favor of consumption purchased from income from wage labor. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Budgets, Conventional Instruction, Developing Nations, Educational Assessment, Educational Demand, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities, Family (Sociological Unit), Fees, Foreign Countries, Investment, Labor, Life Style, Public Education, Rural Urban Differences, Wages
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Consumption; Kenya (South Maragoli); Life Cycles; Subsistence Production