Socio-moralist vocationalism and public aspirations: Secondary education policies in colonial and present-day Ghana

Africa Today

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-94

  Yamada, Shoko ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EDUCATION POLICY; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34247671596     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/aft.2005.52.1.70     Document Type: Article

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