Education And Development In Zimbabwe

Author : Edward Shizha,Michael T. Kariwo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460916069

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Education and Development in Zimbabwe by Edward Shizha,Michael T. Kariwo Pdf

The book represents a contribution to policy formulation and design in an increasingly knowledge economy in Zimbabwe. It challenges scholars to think about the role of education, its funding and the egalitarian approach to widening access to education. The nexus between education, democracy and policy change is a complex one. The book provides an illuminating account of the constantly evolving notions of national identity, language and citizenship from the Zimbabwean experience. The book discusses educational successes and challenges by examining the ideological effects of social, political and economic considerations on Zimbabwe’s colonial and postcolonial education. Currently, literature on current educational challenges in Zimbabwe is lacking and there is very little published material on these ideological effects on educational development in Zimbabwe. This book is likely to be one of the first on the impact of social, political and economic meltdown on education. The book is targeted at local and international academics and scholars of history of education and comparative education, scholars of international education and development, undergraduate and graduate students, and professors who are interested in educational development in Africa, particularly Zimbabwe. Notwithstanding, the book is a valuable resource to policy makers, educational administrators and researchers and the wider community. Shizha and Kariwo’s book is an important and illuminating addition on the effects of social, political and economic trajectories on education and development in Zimbabwe. It critically analyses the crucial specifics of the Zimbabwean situation by providing an in depth discourse on education at this historical juncture. The book offers new insights that may be useful for an understanding of not only the Zimbabwean case, but also education in other African countries. Rosemary Gordon, Senior Lecturer in Educational Foundations, University of Zimbabwe Ranging in temporal scope from the colonial era and its elitist legacy through the golden era of populist, universal elementary education to the disarray of contemporary socioeconomic crisis; covering elementary through higher education and touching thematically on everything from the pernicious effects of social adjustment programmes through the local deprofessionalization of teaching, this text provides a comprehensive, wide ranging and yet carefully detailed account of education in Zimbabwe. This engagingly written portrayal will prove illuminating not only to readers interested in Zimbabwe’s education specifically but more widely to all who are interested in how the sociopolitical shapes education- how ideology, policy, international pressures, economic factors and shifts in values collectively forge the historical and contemporary character of a country’s education. Handel Kashope Wright, Professor of Education, University of British Columbia

Author : Shizha, Edward
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780798304078

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Restoring the Educational Dream. Rethinking Educational Transformation in Zimbabwe by Shizha, Edward Pdf

The role of education in human well being and social development cannot be overestimated. After a number of highly commendable policies on education in the first decade of independence, the education system in Zimbabwe has taken a tumble that needs both examining and rectifying. This volume analyses the challenges facing the education system in Zimbabwe and explores and scrutinises theoretical and practical possibilities for restoring the educational dream that was initiated at independence in 1980. The book is targeted at academics, scholars, college and university students, policy makers and other stakeholders and advocates a multi-pronged approach that must involve all stakeholders if educational retransformation, reconstruction and restoration are to be achieved. The authors provide a range of recommendations for a project that would restore the educational dream in Zimbabwe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X001842036

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Education in Zimbabwe by Anonim Pdf

International collaboration for building a new system based on justice and equality / M'bow Amadou-Mantar (3 p.). --Education and the new social and political order / Canaan Banana (2 p.). --Technical and ideological education : skills, values and attitudes / Robert Mugabe (3 p.). --The nature and function of education in Zimbabwe / Dzingai Mutumbuka (4 p.). --Education for a changing Zimbabwe / Fay Chung (5 p.). --Curriculum development in Mozambique / Mozambique Curriculum Development Staff (5 p.). --Creating a new mentality / Janice McLaughlin (12 p.). --Worker's education / P. Van Rensberg (13 p.). --Education and economic development / Colin Stoneman, P. Zvobgo (8 p.). --Education in Cuba --Agricultural education in Yugoslavia --Literacy for development in Zimbabwe / Taka Mudariki (10 p.). --Nicaraguan people's education / R. Saenz (20 p.). --Ethiopia's adult literacy campaign (16 p.). --Literacy in Tanzania (14 p.). --Teacher education in Zimbabwe / E.J. Chanakira (8 p.). --The Zim-Sci project.

Author : Bekithemba Dube,Albert Mufanechiya
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781666953138

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Regime and Education in Zimbabwe by Bekithemba Dube,Albert Mufanechiya Pdf

This collection focuses on the post-independence educational development in Zimbabwe. It shows how the ZANU PF regime has presided over the demise of education, and covers a wide range of topics such as violence against teachers, poor salaries, student activism, minority languages, and curriculum innovations. This volume argues that the regime has used education as a tool for repression. Curriculum innovations introduced and implemented in Zimbabwe have little to do with improving the performance of the learners, and more to do with stopping teachers from pushing the regime change agenda. Consequently, this has resulted in a nation in crisis, marked with high turnover, poor economy, and mass exodus of teachers and learners. The contributors to this volume make various suggestions which could recenter education towards addressing the experiences of the learners, as opposed to being used as a tool to push repression and thwart democracy.

Author : Patience Mukwambo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429956232

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Quality in Higher Education as a Tool for Human Development by Patience Mukwambo Pdf

Whilst many studies have explored how quality in higher education is conceptualised in the Global North, less attention has been paid to quality in higher education in Africa and the Global South. This book uses the human development and capabilities approach to demonstrate how quality in teaching and learning contributes to a range of benefits, such as improved wellbeing, economic outcomes, political engagement, and human capital formation amongst graduates. The book interrogates the various dimensions of quality as well as factors that impact on the realisation of quality in universities and society at large. Recognising that measures of quality are context and stakeholder specific, the book uses the Zimbabwean context as a Global South case study. It evaluates how quality is conceptualised and operationalised in Zimbabwean universities, and how that impacts on teaching and learning policy and practice. The book also demonstrates the need for economic resources for individuals and universities, and emphasises the importance of a social and educational environment conducive to critical learning, and post-university opportunities. This book will be of interest to researchers across Education, African and Development Studies, as well as to policymakers and practitioners with an interest in quality assurance and the promotion of teaching and learning in universities in the Global South.

Author : Fay Chung,Emmanuel Ngara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0949225258

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Socialism, Education, and Development by Fay Chung,Emmanuel Ngara Pdf

Author : Boniface Samuel Runesu Chivore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Critical pedagogy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073476199

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The Contribution of the Teacher Towards Development in Zimbabwe by Boniface Samuel Runesu Chivore Pdf

Author : Bernard S. M. Gatawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111034430

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Quality-quantity Dilemma in Education by Bernard S. M. Gatawa Pdf

Author : Morgan Chitiyo
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 1631170783

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Educating Zimbabwe for the 21st Century by Morgan Chitiyo Pdf

This book offers an insightful and critical examination of Zimbabwe's education system. The authors take a broad perspective and explore the most important aspects of the education system. The book starts by looking at the history of Zimbabwe's education system focusing on its development from an exclusionary past where a few privileged individuals could access education, and proceeds to explore the country's universal education, which followed the attainment of political independence from Great Britain in 1980. The authors then go on to examine the socio-economic and political factors that have contributed to the collapse of a once-vibrant education system that has been credited with producing, arguably, some of Africa's finest professionals. As an antidote to this, the authors discuss service delivery models that have emerged as "best and effective" practices in education and how these could transform the country's education system so that it can meet the educational, societal, professional, and economic demands of the 21st Century a timely focus for a country trying to reinvent itself as it emerges from a decade-long severe socio-economic and political crises. The authors did an excellent job of discussing how to maximise positive educational outcomes for every Zimbabwean child via early childhood education, special education, inclusive education, counsellor education and educational research. To their credit, the authors focus on fundamental educational issues pertaining to teacher preparation, emphasising structural, functional and sociological needs in response to the demands of a 21st Century economy. The book is an excellent resource for scholars, researchers, teacher preparation programs, professional development programs for in-service teachers, development studies programs, history scholars, and policy-makers, among others.

Author : Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030442187

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The Education Systems of Africa by Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo Pdf

This research handbook provides meaningful coverage on current trends in the dynamic education systems of Africa. It presents the main findings on current issues in the education systems from different African countries. Specifically, it examines education policies and what can be done differently by African nations to strengthen these policies. The objective is to highlight African nations’ capacity to address issues of social justice to generate ideas that can help translate the increasing strengths of the continent into achieving sustainable development.

Author : Sybille Küster
Publisher : Lit Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Black people
ISBN : 3825839702

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African Education in Colonial Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi by Sybille Küster Pdf

" In a critical evaluation of prevailing theoretical approaches to the history of colonial education, this study explores the development of African schooling in colonial Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Educational expansion, and the provision of academically-oriented forms of instruction are seen to reflect the selective acceptance and active pursuit of formal education on the part of the African population, and not resulting from imperial schemes of modernization, social engineering, economic exploitation or cultural domination. Due to the political strength of the European settler communities and the regional economy's demand for mainly cheap, unskilled farm and mine labor, the overall trend of government educational policies was to inhibit and control the expansion of African schooling. In the context of rural decline and restrictive state policies, which severely limited African chances for advancement in the industrial and agricultural spheres, African men and women came to perceive a literary-oriented kind of education as the key to gaining remunerable employment, enhancing upward social mobility, and circumventing the patriarchal control of chiefs and elders. African efforts to expand the network of schools, to gain access to higher levels of instruction, and to shape the contents of education in accordance with their interests mitigated the confines of official segregationist policies and thus came to make a crucial contribution to the dynamics of educational development in all three of the territories. "

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462095335

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A Comparative Analysis of Higher Education Systems by Anonim Pdf

"This is a well crafted, timely book that comes at a time when so much is happening in higher education contexts across the world. Clearly, it is in response to these global (and selectively local) trends that Kariwo, Gounko and Nungu bring together an impressive lineup of both established and emerging scholars who achieve a comprehensive and critically constructed perspective on tertiary education systems. Collectively, the chapters in this work shall expand the epistemic boundaries of the area and its affiliated disciplines, and the book as a whole will greatly benefit interested scholars, students, education policy makers and the public at large. " - Ali A. Abdi, Professor, University of Alberta

Author : Rugano Jonas Zvobgo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112992784

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The Post-colonial State and Educational Reform by Rugano Jonas Zvobgo Pdf

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030416034

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The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and Development in Zimbabwe by Ezra Chitando Pdf

There is a growing realization that religion plays a major role in development, particularly in the Global South. Whereas theories of secularization assumed that religion would disappear, the reality is that religion has demonstrated its tenacity. In the specific case of Zimbabwe, religion has remained a positive social force and has made a significant contribution to development, particularly through the Zimbabwe Council of Churches. This has been through political activism, contribution to health, education, women’s emancipation, and ethical reconstruction. This volume analyzes the contribution of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches to development in the country.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030570392

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Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms by Fernando M. Reimers Pdf

This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of development. The study includes system level reforms in jurisdictions where students achieve high levels in international assessments of basic literacies, such as Singapore and Ontario, Canada, as well as in nations where students achieve much lower levels, such as Kenya, Mexico, Punjab-Pakistan and Zimbabwe. The chapters examine system-level reforms that focus on strengthening the capacity to teach the basics, as in Ontario and Pakistan, as well as reforms that aim at building the capacity to teach a much broader set of competencies and skills, such as Kenya, Mexico, Singapore and Zimbabwe. The volume includes systems at very different levels of spending per student and reforms at various points in the cycle of policy implementation, some just starting, some struggling to survive a governmental transition, and others that have been in place for an extended period of time. From the comparative study of these reforms, we aim to provide an understanding of how to build the capacity of education systems to teach 21st century skills at scale in diverse settings.