Politics In African Education

Author : Brian Levy,Robert Cameron,Ursula Hoadley,Vinothan Naidoo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192557353

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The Politics and Governance of Basic Education by Brian Levy,Robert Cameron,Ursula Hoadley,Vinothan Naidoo Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. All over the world, economic inclusion has risen to the top of the development discourse. A well-performing education system is central to achieving inclusive development - but the challenge of improving educational outcomes has proven to be unexpectedly difficult. Access to education has increased, but quality remains low, with weaknesses in governance comprising an important part of the explanation. The Politics and Governance of Basic Education explores the balance between hierarchical and horizontal institutional arrangements for the public provision of basic education. Using the vivid example of South Africa, a country that had ambitious goals at the outset of its transition from apartheid to democracy, it explores how the interaction of politics and institutions affects educational outcomes. By examining lessons learned from how South Africa failed to achieve many of its goals, it constructs an innovative alternative strategy for making process, combining practical steps to achieve incremental gains to re-orient the system towards learning.

Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0520032926

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Political Values and the Educated Class in Africa by Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui Pdf

Author : Patrick M. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429866999

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Class Formation and Civil Society by Patrick M. Boyle Pdf

First published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance their offspring’s chances for survival and even domination in a world of scarce resources and limited opportunities for employment, elites see private schools as tools to shape newly emerging civil societies in Africa in their own image. From a theoretical perspective, the fresh evidence presented here shows that schooling has once again become a major social force influencing the balance of state and society in modern Africa. Re-examining an older political tradition of class analysis and integrating it into more recent civil society perspectives, the author shows that the abandonment of the unreliable education services of dysfunctional African states in favour of private schools has profound consequences for class articulation in societies dividing, once again, according to educational opportunities.

Author : Clive Harber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015019760720

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Politics in African Education by Clive Harber Pdf

Author : Brian Levy,Robert Cameron,Ursula Hoadley,Vinothan Naidoo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198824053

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Politics and Governance of Basic Education by Brian Levy,Robert Cameron,Ursula Hoadley,Vinothan Naidoo Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. All over the world, economic inclusion has risen to the top of the development discourse. A well-performing education system is central to achieving inclusive development - but the challenge of improving educational outcomes has proven to be unexpectedly difficult. Access to education has increased, but quality remains low, with weaknesses in governance comprising an important part of the explanation. The Politics and Governance of Basic Education explores the balance between hierarchical and horizontal institutional arrangements for the public provision of basic education. Using the vivid example of South Africa, a country that had ambitious goals at the outset of its transition from apartheid to democracy, it explores how the interaction of politics and institutions affects educational outcomes. By examining lessons learned from how South Africa failed to achieve many of its goals, it constructs an innovative alternative strategy for making process, combining practical steps to achieve incremental gains to re-orient the system towards learning.

Author : Luescher, Thierry M.,Klemencic, Manja
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928331223

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Student Politics in Africa by Luescher, Thierry M.,Klemencic, Manja Pdf

The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and a symposium on student representation in African higher education governance. The book includes theoretical chapters on student organising, student activism and representation; chapters on historical and current developments in student politics in Anglophone and Francophone Africa; and in-depth case studies on student representation and activism in a cross-section of universities and countries. The book provides a unique resource for academics, university leaders and student affairs professionals as well as student leaders and policy-makers in Africa and elsewhere.

Author : Elizabeth Magano Amukugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070259093

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Education and Politics in Namibia by Elizabeth Magano Amukugo Pdf

Author : S. Nombuso Dlamini
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552382127

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New Directions in African Education by S. Nombuso Dlamini Pdf

A collection of essays which critically examines education in the African context and presents possible courses of action to reinvent its future.

Author : David R. Morrison
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773593480

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Education and Politics in Africa by David R. Morrison Pdf

Author : M. Luescher,Manja Klemencic
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928331230

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Student Politics in Africa by M. Luescher,Manja Klemencic Pdf

The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and a symposium on student representation in African higher education governance. The book includes theoretical chapters on student organising, student activism and representation; chapters on historical and current developments in student politics in Anglophone and Francophone Africa; and in-depth case studies on student representation and activism in a cross-section of universities and countries. The book provides a unique resource for academics, university leaders and student affairs professionals as well as student leaders and policy-makers in Africa and elsewhere.

Author : José Augusto Cossa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015077638255

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Power, Politics, and Higher Education in Southern Africa by José Augusto Cossa Pdf

The interface of power, politics, and education as an arena for the exercise of influential and authoritative decisions of global, regional and national actors seeking to control African educational processes constitutes a key area for more critical reflection and needed research. Indeed, the persistent challenges and the search for development paradigms in the Africa call for the production of critical knowledge produced by scholars who can effectively locate their analyses of the local and national in the broader framework as the site of contention and negotiation between these actors with their common and also competing interests. This is the context in which this book, with a focus on Southern Africa and using Mozambique as an illustrative case study, can be localized.

Author : Obed Mfum-Mensah
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498574051

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Education Marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa by Obed Mfum-Mensah Pdf

This book focuses on education policy framework for educating marginalized children in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses “marginality” as a critical discourse to highlight the complicated ways education policy making in sub-Saharan Africa have constructed and perpetuated marginality in the region since Africa’s encounters with Europe. The book is organized around two parts, each of which discusses a specific dimension of the marginality and education policy nexus. Part I focuses on theorizations of marginality and education. The theoretical framework on marginality and education outlines the definitional and conceptual backgrounds on marginality – the complicated ways policies of the Christian missionaries, colonial governments and postcolonial governments constructed and perpetuated marginality in the region. Part II focuses on addressing the issue of marginality from theory to practice. These chapters highlight the ways policies shaped the educational development, schooling processes, and educational outcomes of selected marginalized communities and groups. Attention is given to schooling in rural communities, the complexities of girls’ education in rural contexts, education of Zongo Muslim communities, violence in school in rural contexts, and education collaboration in rural traditional communities. The book argues that education policies in sub-Saharan Africa fail to address the educational needs of marginalized children because current policy frameworks ae not based on examination of colonial policies which created the existing marginality. In order to implement policies that address policy gaps and meet the educational needs of marginalized children, strong synergies are necessary between education policy makers, other education stakeholders, and marginalized communities.

Author : Kelly M. Duke Bryant
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780299303044

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Education as Politics by Kelly M. Duke Bryant Pdf

Education as Politics argues that colonial schooling remade Senegalese politics during the transition to French rule, creating political spaces that were at once African and colonial, and ultimately leading to the historic 1914 election of a black African representative from Senegal to the French National Assembly.

Author : Dr. Susan Grant Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422288832

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Education in Africa by Dr. Susan Grant Lewis Pdf

Many people believe education in Africa is in a state of crisis. More than 45 million African children do not attend school. In many places, classes are held outside, under tents or trees, and schools often do not have such essential supplies as chalk and textbooks. Yet there have also been significant improvements in recent years. More young Africans are able to attend school today than a generation ago, and the governments of many countries are attempting to address the problems in their educational systems. This book chronicles the development of educational systems in Africa, from the colonial era to the present day. It examines the current state of education in Africa, discussing the effect that the continents poverty has on funding schools and explaining the persistence of educational inequalities.

Author : Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu,Victor Chikaipa,Anthony Mavuto Gunde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000414349

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Education, Communication and Democracy in Africa by Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu,Victor Chikaipa,Anthony Mavuto Gunde Pdf

This innovative volume critically examines the intersection between democracy, education and communication in African educational domains. Providing a platform for multidisciplinary research, it advances scholarship in democratic citizenship education in African higher education through methodological and theoretical innovation. The book discusses the extent to which explicit or subtle communication frameworks that underlie policymaking, institutional culture, teaching and learning experiences in African higher education significantly engender democratic mind habits and practices in students as citizens. Chapters in the book examine how communication frameworks in pedagogy ought to navigate power imbalances between students on the one hand and the institution and academics on the other. The book also examines how (dis)empowering higher education policies are and whether they contribute to democratic equality. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education, democratic citizenship education, communication, and African studies.