Curriculum policy as compensatory legitimation? A view from the periphery

Jansen, Jonathan D.

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Curriculum policy as compensatory legitimation? A view from the periphery

Jansen, Jonathan D.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1353

Date: 1990-03

Abstract:

Argues that socialist curriculum policy, independent of actual curriculum practice, serves as a powerful vehicle for the legitimation of the state in post-colonial societies in the face of unaltered material conditions. Relevance of compensatory legitimation for developing nations; Defensive radicalism as an instrument of compensatory legitimation; Curriculum policy as defensive radicalism in Zimbabwe.

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