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Student Politics In The Third World

Student Politics in the Third World Author(s): Philip G. Altbach Source: Higher Education, Vol. 13, No. 6 (Dec., 1984), pp. 635-655 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3446867 Accessed: 26/03/2009 11:04 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=springer. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Springer is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Higher Education. http://www.jstor.org
635 Higher Education 13 (1984) 635-655 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam - Printed in the Netherlands STUDENT POLITICS IN THE THIRD WORLD PHILIP G. ALTBACH Comparative Education Center, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
ABSTRACT Student political activism remains a key issue in the Third World despite its decline in the industrialized nations. Students continue to be active in politics and frequently have an impact on societal events. The historical development...