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ERIC Number: EJ476577
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
Ideology, Policy and Educational Change in Papua, New Guinea.
Avalos, Beatrice
Comparative Education, v29 n3 p275-92 1993
Explores the manner in which ideology and hidden assumptions, educational policy perspectives, and reform proposals are interrelated in current education reform discussions in Papua New Guinea. Discusses reforms aimed at improving access and retention in primary schools and at restructuring secondary education, and contradictory principles related to gradualism, maintaining "standards," and selectivity. (SV)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Policy, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Ideology, Public Policy, Relevance (Education), Rural Education
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Papua New Guinea
Note: Special number 15; theme issue with title "Education in the South Pacific."