The role of the institute of adult education in the process of development in Tanzania: a study of its direct teaching function in the city of Dar es Salaam
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1970
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University of Dar es Salaam
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This study is concerned with the role of the Institute of Adult Education (IAE) in Dar es Salaam in the process of development in Tanzania. Its objectives are to discover the actual and potential contribution of the Institutes evening classes and to determine whether they give to the nation returns sufficient to justify their existence in a country where poverty dictates a stringent budget and a carefully worked out programme of priorities. To learn about the students who attend the Institute and about (IAE) itself all data available in the Institute archives was examined, including enrolment and permanent record cards, and reports from Directors and various advisor bodies. A questionnaire was then designed and a sample of adult students was selected for interviews. The data were analyzed according to students’ origins, present circumstances and aspirations, and by the logical division of the Institute’s purposes into these which are intellectual and those socializing. With the findings and the records available, the effectiveness of IAE was assessed and a number of questions and suggestions towards increasing its contribution to the development of Tanzania were posed. It is concluded that the role of the Institute through its direct education of adults is: (1) to assist in the provision of a continuing supply of intermediate level workers who act as the instruments of development, (2) to provide that these workers are neither sheer functionaries nor seekers after personal gain by giving them an understanding of societal goals and of their roles within the process of development together with the knowledge and skills necessary to their work; (3) to assure continuous mobility from outside of and from within the middle and higher levels of employment by offering to partially educated persons the opportunity to gain the qualifications necessary to increased responsibility in their jobs; (4) and thus to act as a preventive against the fixing of social strata in Tanzania’s avowedly socialistic development.
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Snyder, M.C. (1970)The role of the institute of adult education in the process of development in Tanzania: a study of its direct teaching function in the city of Dar es Salaam, PhD dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam. Available at http://41.86.178.3/internetserver3.1.2/detail.aspx?parentpriref=