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Foundations of Education: The Attack

Jamaica's education system was influenced by the country's shift from a capitalistic to a socialistic ideology between 1960-1980. Under capitalistic rule, education and other institutions were organized along capitalistic lines, but a socialist government rearranged them along socialist ideals. The socialist government criticized the previous education system for lacking relevance, being authoritarian, and geared toward reproducing social classes.

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Foundations of Education: The Attack

Jamaica's education system was influenced by the country's shift from a capitalistic to a socialistic ideology between 1960-1980. Under capitalistic rule, education and other institutions were organized along capitalistic lines, but a socialist government rearranged them along socialist ideals. The socialist government criticized the previous education system for lacking relevance, being authoritarian, and geared toward reproducing social classes.

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Foundations of education

Assess the ideology of Jamaica as a nation and show how this ideology contributes to the

formation of the education system

Definition: An ideology is a set of normative beliefs and values that a person or other entity has

for non-epistemic reasons. These rely on basic assumptions about reality.

INDEPENDENCE ERA

Between 1960 and 1980 Jamaica was governed by, firstly a largely capitalistic government then,

a socialistic government. Under the original independent government from 1962 through to

1972), educational, economic, and social institutions were organized largely along capitalistic

lines. Then there was a change to a self-identified socialist government came (1972-1980), most

of these same institutions were rearranged along largely socialistic lines.

The Attack

Michael Manley, with the support of the People's National Party (P.N.P.) levelled several attacks

on the economic and most of all the educational arrangements of previous Jamaican

governments. These attacks, based as they were in the socialistic ideology, argued that: 1

education as practiced in Jamaica lacked relevance to the needs of the society and the individual

and was practiced in an authoritarian atmosphere, secondly; it was geared toward reproducing

the class system in the society and maintaining a superior approach.

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