Career Choices and Influences in Liberian Rural and Urban   Society
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This project studies how members of the Vai society of Liberia, West            Africa, interpret and use the various careers available to them.  Two           field workers, one a native Vai presently a graduate student in NYC,            will interview a small sample of individuals in three communities, a            small city, an isolated country hamlet, and an intermediate country             village.  The understanding of local (Koranic) religious practice and           scholarship, craft apprenticeship, traditional secular Vai scholarship          and western schooling will be compared and contrasted in the decisions          and discussions of the individuals and their families about their life          trajectories.                                                                                                                                                   The research is intended to explore an approach to the cross-cultural           analysis of Western school and other forms of life preparation, in a            setting where cultural diversity is an important factor shaping the             meaning and uses of schooling.  It is also intended to provide a                sociological grounding for previous psychologically oriented research on        multiple literacies, including numeracy, in school and apprenticeship           among this people. This research is important because it will help us           understand what sorts of things people learn well and expect from formal        schooling as opposed to informal learning.
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{'Code': '139000', 'Text': 'Cultural Anthropology'}
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