Re Thinking Postcolonial Education In Sub Saharan Africa In The 21st Century

Author : Edward Shizha,Ngoni Makuvaza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463009621

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Re-thinking Postcolonial Education in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century by Edward Shizha,Ngoni Makuvaza Pdf

What have postcolonial Sub-Saharan African countries achieved in their education policies and programmes? How far have they contributed to successful attainment of the targeted 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on education? What were the constraints and barriers for developing an education system that appeals to the needs of the sub-region? Re-thinking Postcolonial Education in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century: Post-Millennium Development Goals is an attempt to demonstrate that Sub-Saharan Africa has the potential and capability to provide solutions to challenges facing its desire and ability to provide sustainable education to its people. To that end, the contributors are academics with an African vision attempting to come up with African home-grown perspectives to fill the gap created by the lapse of the MDGs as the guiding vision and framework for educational provision in Africa and beyond. The book seeks to articulate and address African issues from an informed as well as objective African perspective. The book is also intended to provide insights to scholars who are interested in studying and understanding the nature of postcolonial education in the Sub-Saharan African region. Given the objectives and themes of this book, it is intended for academic scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, human rights scholars, curriculum developers, college and university academics, teachers, education policy makers, international organisations, and local and international non-governmental organisations that are interested in African education policies and programmes. “Rethinking Postcolonial Education in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century provides contemporary reflections from multiple perspectives and re-positions the issue of education at the forefront of the debates on African development.” – Lamine Diallo, Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada “The book is a welcome addition to discourses and analyses on education in sub-Saharan Africa with reference to a postcolonial critique and the Millennium Development Goals framework on education in Africa.” – Michael Tonderai Kariwo, PhD, Instructor and Research Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada

Author : Obed Mfum-Mensah
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498545709

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Education, Social Progress, and Marginalized Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by Obed Mfum-Mensah Pdf

This book employs sociohistorical, narrative, and discourse frameworks to discuss the sociopolitical complexities and ambiguities of educating marginalized groups in sub-Saharan Africa since western education was introduced in the region. It outlines the systemic and structural challenges faced by marginalized children in the education system that prevent them from fully participating in the education process. This book focuses on how the props underlying Christian missionary education, colonial education, and early postcolonial educational enterprise all served to marginalize certain groups, including women, some geographical regions and/or communities, such as Islamic communities and people with disabilities, from the colonial and postcolonial economic discourses. This historical background provides the springboard for discussions on the complexities and ambiguities of educating marginalized groups in some communities in sub-Saharan Africa in the contemporary times. This book also highlights the challenges of the recent policies of policy makers and the strategies and initiatives of civic societies, non-governmental organizations, and local communities to promote marginalized children’s participation in education. This book elucidates the varied ways certain groups and communities continue to interrogate the structural and systemic challenges that marginalize them educationally. It argues that the level of marginalized groups’ participation in education in sub-Saharan African in the 21st century will determine the progress the region will make in the Education for All (EFA) initiative and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Furthermore, it argues that increasing educational participation in marginalized communities requires implementation of educational programs that address marginalized groups’ structural social arrangements and socioeconomic contexts.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005152

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Youth and changing realities by UNESCO Pdf

Author : JIS Contributors
Publisher : OJED/STAR
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Special Issue: Soka Approaches in Education Vol 9 No SI (2020) by JIS Contributors Pdf

Special Issue: Soka Approaches in EducationVol 9 No SI (2020)

Author : Leon Tikly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351812399

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Education for Sustainable Development in the Postcolonial World by Leon Tikly Pdf

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) lies at the heart of global, regional and national policy agendas, with the goal of achieving socially and environmentally just development through the provision of inclusive, equitable quality education for all. Realising this potential on the African continent, however, calls for radical transformation of policy and practice. Developing a transformative agenda requires taking account of the ‘learning crisis’ in schools, the inequitable access to a good quality education, the historical role of education and training in supporting unsustainable development, and the enormous challenges involved in complex system change. In the African continent, sustainable development entails eradicating poverty and inequality, supporting economically sustainable livelihoods within planetary boundaries, and averting environmental catastrophe, as well as dealing with health pandemics and security threats. In addressing these challenges, the book: explores the meaning of ESD for Africa in the context of the ‘postcolonial condition’ critically discusses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as regional development agendas draws on a wealth of research evidence and examples from across the continent engages with contemporary debates about the skills, competencies and capabilities required for sustainable development, including decolonising the curriculum and transforming teaching and learning relationships sets out a transformative agenda for policy-makers, practitioners, NGOs, social movements and other stakeholders based on principles of social and environmental justice. Education for Sustainable Development in the Postcolonial World is an essential read for anyone with an interest in education and socially and environmentally just development in Africa.

Author : Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu,Victor Chikaipa,Anthony Mavuto Gunde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.

Author : Vuyisile Msila
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928480709

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Developing Teaching and Learning in Africa by Vuyisile Msila Pdf

Developing Teaching and Learning in Africa is a collection of chapters that carry on the topical discussions on indigenous knowledges and western epistemologies. African societies still aspire towards knowledge that is liberatory, enhance critical thinking and decentre Eurocentrism. The contributors explore these decolonial debates as they navigate ways of moving towards epistemic freedom and cognitive justice.

Author : Machado, Carolina F.,Davim, J. Paulo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522572602

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Higher Education and the Evolution of Management, Applied Sciences, and Engineering Curricula by Machado, Carolina F.,Davim, J. Paulo Pdf

In an increasingly complex, competitive, and global world, organizations require highly skilled professionals who have the capacity to proactively answer challenges. Thus, educational institutions must update the curricula of their courses to better contribute to the training and development of professionals in order to ensure that they are prepared to face increasing levels of organizational competitiveness. Higher Education and the Evolution of Management, Applied Sciences, and Engineering Curricula is a collection of innovative research that fosters discussion on the evolution of higher-education in management, applied sciences, and engineering with an emphasis on curriculum development, pedagogy, didactic aspects, and sustainable education. This publication presents models, theories, and tools that allow individuals to take a more strategic role in their organizations. It is ideally designed for managers, engineers, human resource officials, academicians, researchers, administrators, and lecturers.

Author : Frans Viljoen,Humphrey Sipalla ,Foluso Adegalu
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Exploring African approaches to international law: Essays in honour of Kéba Mbaye by Frans Viljoen,Humphrey Sipalla ,Foluso Adegalu Pdf

It is unfortunate that the idea that Africa contributes to international law, and has always done so, remains (in 2022) largely a side note, an auxiliary approach, rather than something widely accepted and deeply entrenched. It is cause for pause that this is also true in Africa itself. Exploring African approaches to international law: Essays in honour of Kéba Mbaye is a volume of essays that aims to contribute to a larger effort of imagining what possible approaches to international law Africa has adopted in the decades since the 1960s. It also recognises the legacy of the great Senegalese jurist Kéba Mbaye. Edited by Frans Viljoen, Humphrey Sipalla and Foluso Adegalu, the volume is divided into five broad thematic parts, and comprises eleven chapters. It covers the following themes: ‘Kéba Mbaye in African approaches to international law’, ‘international legal theory’, ‘international human rights law’, ‘international environmental and criminal law’ and ‘teaching of international law’. This publication finds its origins in the 2017 Roundtable on African approaches to international law, held at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. The explorations at the Roundtable on the concept of an ‘African approach’ to international law were taken further at the Kéba Mbaye Conference on African approaches to international law, held at the Senate Hall, University of Pretoria, in December 2018. This conference brought together around 80 students, academics, and members of civil society to address the many questions left unanswered by the death of Judge Mbaye, arguably Africa’s greatest international law jurist of his generation. It provided a forum to continue discussions on ‘African approaches to international (human rights) law’, building on but rethinking and ‘vernacularising’ the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) approach. The contributions to this publication flow from papers presented at the conference. However, the reflections in the book extend beyond Kéba Mbaye as central figure. The result is a broad treatment of various aspects of African approaches to international law by thirteen authors (and co-authors), covering a wide range of generational, geographic and thematic backgrounds and perspectives.

Author : Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis,Christine Scherer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004411876

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Partnership in Higher Education by Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis,Christine Scherer Pdf

Partnership in Higher Education: Trends between African and European Institutions is a pioneer contribution bringing a comprehensive perspective not only on the conceptualization of higher education partnership but also the empirical trends that exist between African and European institutions.

Author : Winniefridah Matsa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030608736

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Marginality, Migration and Education by Winniefridah Matsa Pdf

This book provides a missing link between marginality, migration and education in Zimbabwe, focusing on the educational experiences of migrants’ children in an effort to influence government policies concerning migrant parents and their left-behind children. While there is a large body of knowledge on the education of children of immigrants in destination countries, this book aims to fill in the gap by addressing the children who do not migrate with their parents. Through this unique approach, the book examines the education statuses of these left-behind children, offering insights into their educational challenges, rights, and inequities to better inform policy decisions to meet the 2030 education agenda for action established by the United Nations in 2015. The book will of interest and use to governments, NGOs, teachers and local communities in Africa as a resource to better understand the situation of migrants’ left-behind children as a category of vulnerable children in difficult circumstances.

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Rudi Pretorius,Luiza Olim de Sousa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030746933

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Sustainable Development in Africa by Walter Leal Filho,Rudi Pretorius,Luiza Olim de Sousa Pdf

This book serves the purpose of documenting and promoting African experiences on sustainable development, which encompasses both, formal and non-formal education. Sustainable development is very important to Africa, but there is a paucity of publication which documents and promotes experiences from African countries. Due to their complexity, the interrelations between social, economic and political factors related to sustainable development, especially at universities, need to be better understood. There is also a real need to showcase successful examples of how African institutions are handling their sustainability challenges. It is against this background that this book has been produced. It is a truly interdisciplinary publication, useful to scholars, social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies and private companies, undertaking research and/or executing projects focusing on sustainability from across Africa. As African nations strive to pursue the UN Sustainable Development Goals, it is imperative to cater for the information needs seen across the continent and foster the dissemination of experiences and case studies, which may support both, on-going and future efforts. The scope of the book is deliberately kept wide, and we are looking for contributions across the spectrum of sustainable development from business and economics, to arts and fashion, administration, environment, languages and media studies.

Author : Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong Kwapong,David Addae,John Kwame Boateng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030960018

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Reimagining Development Education in Africa by Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong Kwapong,David Addae,John Kwame Boateng Pdf

This edited volume uses an African-centred approach to examine a renewed vision of development education in Africa. The purpose of the volume is to supplant prevailing Western ideologies, traditions, and rhetoric in the development education discourse in Africa and to advocate for alternative paradigms, knowledges, beliefs, and practices through the effort of dialogue between competing orientations, values and experiences. The book argues that Africa's development challenges are uniquely African requiring indigenous African solutions. Consequently, this book offers an insightful collection of case studies and conceptual papers that examine how indigenous African knowledge, philosophies, traditions, beliefs, and values shape the theory and practice of development education in Africa. Reimagining Development Education in Africa exemplifies an interdisciplinary and multifaceted scholarship, addressing topical issues and advances in development education in Africa. The book discusses among other topics, Ubuntu-inspired education for sustainable development, decolonising African development education, Afrocentricity, Globalisation, and gender equality. This book is a must read for scholars and students interested in understanding indigenous educational efforts aimed at promoting sustained improvements in the quality of life of African peoples.

Author : Michael Tonderai Kariwo,Neda Asadi,Chouaib El Bouhali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030039134

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Interrogating Models of Diversity within a Multicultural Environment by Michael Tonderai Kariwo,Neda Asadi,Chouaib El Bouhali Pdf

Discussing common understanding of the concepts of multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion, this volume critically examines the interpretation and praxis of diversity and inclusion in relation to marginalized populations—from women, sexual minorities, minority newcomers, and aboriginal communities. The contributors collected here present well-grounded epistemological, theoretical, and methodological bases from which to account (at least in part) for the processes and dynamics shaping the relationship between diversity and inclusion, on the one hand, and policy and practice on the other. Arising from research derived in part from community work with minorities in North America, particularly Canada, this volume examines common barriers to full minority integration, with important implications for inclusion efforts around the globe.

Author : Wendy Steele,Lauren Rickards
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030735753

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The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education by Wendy Steele,Lauren Rickards Pdf

This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the heart of “sustainable development” is the legacy of unsustainable development with its roots in modernity and colonialism. Critical engagement with the SDGs involves recognising these roots are shared by universities and the reciprocal need for maintenance, repair and regeneration. Universities are not just enablers of change, but also important targets of change. By focusing on the role of education about, for and through the SDGs, the authors seek to advance critical engagement with higher education that is both progressive and meaningful. We are all responsible for bearing witness to our age. This book will appeal to all those who hope that more sustainable future worlds are still possible.