Background
Samoff, Joel was born on November 27, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Bernard Leon and Zelda Samoff.
Rachel Samoff, Joel Samoff and Jon Metzler at ACAS membership meeting in New York, 2007.
(Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and ...)
Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occurring in five peripheral countries--China, Cuba, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Nicaragua--commonly viewed as in transition to socialism. Current political patterns and leadership in these countries have emerged in the context of predominantly agricultural, industrially underdeveloped economies. Each state has played a major role in social transformation, relying on the educational system to train, educate, and socialize its future citizens. Discussing the similarities and differences among these states, the authors show the primacy of politics and the interaction of material and ideological goals in the process of social transition, and how shifting policies reflect and are reflected in educational change. This collection first examines critical analyses of education in capitalist societies, both industrialized and peripheral, and explores the utility of those perspectives in the political and educational conditions of the countries under study. Together these essays offer the first systematic explanation of how and why education in socialist countries undergoing rapid change differs from education in developing capitalist countries. Contributions to the study were made by Mary Ann Burris, Anton Johnston, and Carlos Alberto Torres.
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Samoff, Joel was born on November 27, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Bernard Leon and Zelda Samoff.
Bachelor in History, Antioch College, 1965; Master of Arts in Political Science, University of Wisconsin, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1972.
Assistant professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1970-1980;
lecturer, U. Zambia, Lusaka, 1973-1975;
visiting associate professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 1989-1990;
associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1980-1988;
visiting scholar, Stanford (California) U., since 1988. Visiting assistant professor Institute Law and Development University of Wisconsin, 1972. Research associate U. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1968-1969, 73-74, 83-85.
Director Center African Studies U. Stanford, 1984-1985. Consultant Swedish International Development Authority, Stockholm, since 1987, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, since 1989, International Labor Organization, Geneva, 1989-1995. Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1993.
Acting professor Stanford (California) U., 1994.
(Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and ...)
Board of directors Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, 1974-1977. Member African Association Political Science, African Studies Association (board directors 1982-1985), Association Concerned Africa Scholars (board directors since 1979), American Political Science Association, Comparative and International Education Society, International Political Science.Assn.
Married Rachel Samoff, March 30, 1967. Children: Erika, Kara.