| Abstract: | Two years (1978–1980) of working with educators and the Ministry of Education in Mozambique form the basis of this appraisal of the directions which socialist education is taking there. The influence of East European advisers from centrally planned economies appears to be encouraging a form of education which is authoritarian and, because of planning manpower for rapid industrialisation, elitist, technocratic and inherently undemocratic. Particular note is taken that the techniques of manpower planning applied do not seem appropriate to the changing economy of Mozambique. |
