By Lene Buchert
Schooling has had a really precise function within the social and political background of Tanzania, with Nyerere selling the 'Eduction for Self-Reliance' programme in order to train the mass of the inhabitants after independence. North the USA: Ohio U Press
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While national and sub-national agents, factors and circumstances have always been important in the direction of the Tanzanian development process, the international environment has intervened to a substantial extent in national policy formulation and implementation and the general development since the pre-colonial period. The relative power, influence and impact of the international environment, the state and civil society have been expressed in fundamental tensions between the three. These tensions resulted partly from conflicting goals for and expectations of the Page 2 development process, and partly from a distortion of the goals in the implementation process due to disagreement by or lack of incorporation in decision-making processes of specific individuals and social groups, and because of other unforeseen and intervening factors.
The understanding of the nature and dynamics of Tanzanian society is based on the early perspectives of the dominant development theories seen in relation to the contemporary debates concerning the relative role of the economy and the polity, of agents and structures, and of the importance of the sub-national level in national development. The core notion derived from these perspectives and pursued in the book is the need for analysis of the dynamic interaction between the polity and the economy.
While the simultaneous education of young and adults was to prevent increasing social gaps, the education of females was, as in the earlier period, directly related to the matrimonial needs of males. 35 The earlier emphasis on health and agriculture was retained and could best be achieved, it was argued, by the general education of Africans, since reading and writing skills were likely to lead to material progress and to a sound and prosperous rural population.