The Diploma Disease

117 Pages·1976·273.164 MB·English

by  Ronald Dore

Schools used to be for educating people, for developing minds and
characters. Todby, as jobs depend more and rnore on certificates,
degrees and diplomas, atms and motives are changing. Schooling has
become more and more a ritualrsed process of qualification-earning
Professor Dore traces the u nderlving causes of this change through
the educataonal histones of Britain, Japan, Sri Lanka and Kenya. He
shows how the 'late development effect' makes what is a worrying
problem for the rich countries a disaster for the cieveloping countries of
the Third World The competitive scramble for scarce modern sector
jobs produces backwash effects on the quality of education never
envisaged in all the confident literature of the sixties about'investment
in human resources' as the key to cievelopment
He surveys the solutions, too, as thev have been worked out in the
schools of Ta nzania. Cuba, Sri Lanka and Chrna-and rn the fantasies
of lvan lliich, Sorrrehow,the schcols have to be brougnt back to therr
task of educatrng, not nrerely quaiifylng. and the'wa-y society ciecides
who gets what lobs ts the piace vrrhere reform should start China.
which rnventecj the exan'ltnati,3i-r method of occupaticnal selectron
two thousand years agc anc has beeri tne frrst tc abandon it, seerns to
be pointing the wav
Tne author began his acacierntc career ihrrtv yea!'s ago urrth a study of
Japanese Confucian eciircation Tne rdeas for this book took root
dunfig r,,isits to Sri Lanka's schools ai the ttrne of the'youth rnsurrection'
cf igTi Thrs unusljai Dackgroi;ncj has prociuced a bock of Linusual
sccpe and onqrnaittv wnici, w,rli be of tnterest to students of Thirci
WorlC developrnent ano shci;ic qurckly estabirsh itseif on reading iists
for the socrologv-and the philosopny-of educatton. lts iast chaDter
ts an important contribution to cur!'ent debates on the meaning and the
lrmits of equality'
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