Education in Africa

This study examines the issues of indigenous philosophies, which are embedded in different aspects of socialization process among the Akan of Ghana. The research explores the possibility of forging a new future that builds on the positive aspects of their past and present and on carefully chosen ideas, methods and technology from abroad.

In Africa, Western education has been used as a tool for keeping wealth and power in the hands of the educated elite. This book highlights the various processes by which the poor in Africa have been marginalized and disenfranchised, and explains why African economic development is very slow.

Exploring the challenges and controversies surrounding African education today, this text mixes scholarly analysis with anecdotal evidence. It comprehensively examines the intellectual recolonization of Africa.

Although many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have proclaimed it their goal to achieve free universal primary schooling to all children, few have come close to achieving it. The authors of this study describe the implementation of a major primary school reform in five countries (Benin, Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, and Uganda).

This publication comprises two papers. In the first paper, "The Language Question in Africa Seen in the Context of Globalisation, Social Justice and Democrazy", the language question is looked at through the eyes of a social and political scientist. The second paper, "The Battle over the Language of Instruction in Tanzania", focuses on the question of language of instruction through the eyes of an educationist.

An ethnographic study of a school and community in East Africa focusing on the role school plays in the development of the children's identity and relationships to their parents and community, as well as in the development of the region.

This study is an integrated approach to how the problems of education are related to those of national development in Africa, Japan, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. Africa represents the Third World; Japan, the emerging powers; the United States, Western democracy; and the Soviet Union, the socialist world. The study is based on the assumption that a detailed study of these four countries will help to establish the relationship that exists between the problems of education and those of national development.

This text for preservice and in-service education courses provides a brief, yet comprehensive overview of a number of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice.