Philip J Foster

Biographic Data

ID249833
NAMEPhilip J Foster
GIVEN NAMESPhilip J
FAMILY NAMEFoster
SIGNATUREFOSTER P J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS38
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
H-INDEX2

  • "Comments on Hurd and Johnson, "Education and Social Mobility in Ghana

    Philip J Foster, Philip FosterARTICLESociology of Education1968

    I REGRET NOT having had the opportunity to respond at an earlier date to the recent article by G. E. Hurd and T. J. Johnson, but a lengthy absence in Nigeria made this impossible.' However, since their paper attempts a substantive critique of some of my earlier conclusions on education and social mobility in Ghana I think it only appropriate that I make some rejoinder.2 As to the originality of the authors' observations concerning the relationshi…

  • Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of the U.K

    Open AccessPhilip J Foster, Philip FosterARTICLEThe Journal of Modern African…1968

    Perhaps a major decision that must be made by the organisers of professional conferences is whether to structure them in terms of a particular theme or alternatively to allow for a wide diversity of presentation and topics. If the former course is followed there is some danger that specificity of focus will be achieved at the expense of over-all attendance, but this did not appear to be the case at the recent meeting of the A.S.A., attended by ov…

  • Education and Social Change in Ghana

    K A Busia, Philip J Foster et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1966Cited by: 2

  • Education and social change in Ghana

    Philip J FosterBOOKEducation and social change in…1965Cited by: 27

  • Potentials for federation of East African educational programmes

    C Arnold Anderson, Philip J Foster et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies1965

  • Discrimination and Inequality in Education

    C Arnold Anderson, Philip J Foster et al.ARTICLESociology of Education1964Cited by: 1

  • Secondary Schooling and Social Mobility in a West African Nation

    Philip J Foster, Philip FosterARTICLESociology of Education1963Cited by: 8

    Thi8 paper ecamines patterns of social recruitment into a group of highly selective secondary schools in contemporary Ghana. It indicates distinctive features of the Ghanaian polity and economy which have led to a commensurately greater preoccupation with education as an instrument of social mobility than at earlier periods in the West. Further, it attempts to show in what respects the emergent social structures of West Africa can be meaningfully…

  • The Educated African.Ruth Sloan , Helen Kitchen

    Philip J Foster, Philip FosterARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1963