Secondary Schooling and Social Mobility in a West African Nation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2544264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip J Foster, Philip Foster (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 150 |
| Publication date | 1963-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2111950 |
| OpenAlex | W2318661820 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
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 compared with their western counterparts. The internal differentiation of the Ghanaian secondary school system is examined and an attempt is made to show that maqrked fluidity of recruitment patterns into the schools is attributable to the non-class character of Ghanaian society
Character (mathematics) · Demographic economics · Differentiation · Geography · Occupational mobility · Political science · Politics · Polity · Social change · Social class · Social group · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Studies · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · School Choice and Performance
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2018 (48) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |