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Liberia Education Programs

Liberia is a West African nation of 2.7 million persons occupying 42,989 square milesan area approximately equal in size to that of the State of Tennessee in the United States (Paxton, 1989, p. 802). The country's per capita gross national product of US$470 places it near to the bottom of the World Bank's (1989, p. 222) lower middleincome classification.

By the year 2000, Liberia's population is projected to reach 4.0 million. With unemployment high in the late1980s, the growing population represents a major threat to the country's fragile economy. While education is looked to as an answer to this problem, the literacy rate is only 35 percent, and school attendance rates are relatively low20 percent at the secondary level, and 50 percent at the primary level (World Bank, 1989, p. 262).

Education is viewed in most parts of the world as a means through which national goals may be met. Developing countries in particular tend to regard education as an instrument through which economic and modernization goals may be pursued effectively. In such situations, national goals tend to define the nature, purposes, and structure of the educational system. In

1 2 turn, these characteristics of the educational system exert a direct effect on teacher education programs.

Teacher education programs in Liberia are characterized by fragmentation and disarticulation. Special teacher training programs have been initiated to support a variety of donorassisted educational development efforts, while the Ministry of Education supports other teacher training programs. Teacher education programs conducted by Cuttington University College and the University of Liberia are separate from either of the aforementioned programs.

Variations between the several teacher education and training programs are significant with respect to the skills taught. Further, in some instances, the sk...

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