Social Studies for Nation Building: A View from a Developing Society.

Griffith, Anthony D.

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ERIC Number: EJ415763

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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Social Studies for Nation Building: A View from a Developing Society.

Griffith, Anthony D.

Social Studies, v81 n4 p161-65 Jul-Aug 1990

Discusses the role of social studies education in a developing nation, both in theory, and as it is practiced in the English-speaking Caribbean. Diagrams a dynamic for teaching social studies in developing societies. Contends that social studies education has a unique role to play in the enterprise of nation building. (DB)

Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Developing Nations, Development, Educational Development, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Human Resources, Modernization, Role of Education, Social Studies

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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