ABSTRACT
Aims for education are not hard to find. They appear in schools’ mission statements, in party policies for the state, in policy statements from local government, and in the writing of educationists and of social theorists. Aims are formulated by teachers, parents, individual LEA officials, inspectors, employers, pressure groups, NGOs, university tutors, school governors – and all their organisations. In Africa, nation-building ideas may be emphasised, and in the West, individual autonomy.The world over, there is concern about the need for a skilled workforce. In this chapter I concentrate on schools and teachers, but with the proviso that it has to be understood within the wider context.
