From Kingdom to Elitdom: Tradition and the Question of Relevant Education in Ethiopia

This study is a rigorous and critical analysis of the significance and relevance of tradition to modern education in Ethiopia. Based on the interpretation of empirical, historical and theoretical information, it demonstrates how the Ethiopian education system drew antagonistic relationship between e...

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Main Author: Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76767
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description This study is a rigorous and critical analysis of the significance and relevance of tradition to modern education in Ethiopia. Based on the interpretation of empirical, historical and theoretical information, it demonstrates how the Ethiopian education system drew antagonistic relationship between education and tradition with the consequence of making the experience and interest of the majority of the population irrelevant to modernisation.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-767672019-11-07T01:56:54Z From Kingdom to Elitdom: Tradition and the Question of Relevant Education in Ethiopia Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw This study is a rigorous and critical analysis of the significance and relevance of tradition to modern education in Ethiopia. Based on the interpretation of empirical, historical and theoretical information, it demonstrates how the Ethiopian education system drew antagonistic relationship between education and tradition with the consequence of making the experience and interest of the majority of the population irrelevant to modernisation. 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76767 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw
From Kingdom to Elitdom: Tradition and the Question of Relevant Education in Ethiopia
title From Kingdom to Elitdom: Tradition and the Question of Relevant Education in Ethiopia
title_full From Kingdom to Elitdom: Tradition and the Question of Relevant Education in Ethiopia
title_fullStr From Kingdom to Elitdom: Tradition and the Question of Relevant Education in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed From Kingdom to Elitdom: Tradition and the Question of Relevant Education in Ethiopia
title_short From Kingdom to Elitdom: Tradition and the Question of Relevant Education in Ethiopia
title_sort from kingdom to elitdom: tradition and the question of relevant education in ethiopia
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76767