The book opens with a brief description of patterns of industrialization and urbanization in Latin America. The authors then shift to consider the economy of the Venezuelan Gyayana development zone, which spawned the city that bears the region's name. Industrialization and rapid urban growth have created educational complexities and opportunities, and most of Part I of the book focuses on the Ciudad Guayana's future and the schools.  Part II describes the creation of a means to implement the plan developed by the authors. They recomend decentralization of decision making and planning from the capital, and the concentration of local efforts into a Guayana Center for Educational Research, Planning, and Services.  Part III reviews the founding of the Center and its activities between 1966 and 1968 as well as development in the educational institutions of Ciudad Guayana, This section comments on the successes and failures of the Center's three main programs: informal education (literacy and basic education), math and science (middle-school level), and the technical education. The authors suggest where they may have gone wrong in their attempts at implementation.  There are technical appendixes on the sampling scheme and the survey instrumentation, and a detailed description of the factor analysis, canonical correlation, multiple stepwise regression, and multiple discriminant analysis used in the sections offering multivariate perspectives on the barrio families and progress of children through school.

Build a Mill, Build a City, Build a School: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Education in Ciudad Guayana

Arts & Photography

McGinn, Noel F.

Davis, Russell G.

Architecture

Mit Pr

Book by McGinn, Noel F., Snodgrass, Donald R., Kim, Yong Bong, Kim, Shin Bok, Kim, Quee Yong

Education and Development in Korea (Studies in the Modernization of the Republic of Korea: 1945-1975)

History

Snodgrass, Donald R.

Kim, Yong Bong

Kim, Shin Bok

Kim, Quee Yong

Asia

Harvard University Asia Center

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Framing Questions, Constructing Answers: Linking Research with Education Policy for Developing Countries (Harvard Studies in International)

Education & Teaching

Borden, Allison

Schools & Teaching

Harvard Kennedy School

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Dialogo Informado: El Uso de la Investigacion para Conformar la Politica Educativa (Spanish Edition)

Reimers, Fernando M.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

La décentralisation dans l'éducation : pourquoi, quand, quoi et comment ?

Welsh, Thomas

Institut International de Planification de l'Education (UNESCO)

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