Western Education And Political Domination In Africa

Author : Magnus O. Bassey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313003790

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Western Education and Political Domination in Africa by Magnus O. Bassey Pdf

The contribution of Western education to the creation of an African-educated elite is well documented. What is not equally well documented is the fact that African-educated elites have used their education and the schools to perpetuate their dominance by denying the poor the knowledge necessary to protect their political and economic rights and to advance in society. On the other hand, educated elites in Africa make opportunities available to their own members through selective ordering, legitimization of certain language forms and learning processes in schools, and legitimization of elite codes and experiences to the exclusion of the histories, experiences, and worldviews of the poor. This book highlights the processes by which the poor in Africa have been disenfranchised and marginalized through schools' ascriptive mechanisms, and explains why African economic development is very slow.

Author : Patrick Chabal
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521311489

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Political Domination in Africa by Patrick Chabal Pdf

This collection of essays brings together historians and political scientists from Britain, France and the United States, who, from widely differing perspectives and traditions, have been involved in the process of rethinking African politics. They present here the outline of a new approach, grounded in universal political theory rather than on theories of Third World political development. This seeks to integrate the history of Africa (from pre- to post-colonial) with concepts of political theory as they have been applied historically to the analysis of Europe and America. The book addresses a wide audience: students of African history and politics, of Third World development and of political theory.

Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Mokubung O. Nkomo
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Black people
ISBN : UOM:39015027237943

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Pedagogy of Domination by Mokubung O. Nkomo Pdf

Author : Gia Cromer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781498589277

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Transitioning Education in Africa by Gia Cromer Pdf

Transitioning Education in Africa explores how transitions from education in emergency to post-conflict education systems are planned and managed at the national level. Using historical analysis of education policies, surveys, and interviews, Cromer shows how these transitions have been failing and how to improve.

Author : Jim C. Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135512873

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Western-Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963 by Jim C. Harper Pdf

Western-educated Elites in Kenya, proposes to conduct a critical examination of the emergence of the American-educated Kenyan elites (the Asomi) and their role in the nationalist movement and eventually their Africanization of the Civil and Private sectors in Kenya.

Author : Jamaine M. Abidogun,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030382773

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge by Jamaine M. Abidogun,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems–Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models—and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education within and across these systems. African education continues to find itself at once preserving its knowledge, while integrating Islamic and Western aspects in order to compete within this global reality. Contributors take up issues and themes of the positioning, resistance, accommodation, and transformations of indigenous education in relationship to the introduction of Islamic and later Western education. Issues and themes raised acknowledge the contemporary development and positioning of indigenous education within African societies and provide understanding of how indigenous education works within individual societies and national frameworks as an essential part of African contemporary society.

Author : Faustin Ntamushobora
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498200110

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Education for Holistic Transformation in Africa by Faustin Ntamushobora Pdf

Research has revealed ineffectiveness among university graduates in Africa. Some possible causes include a lack of transformative teaching and learning methods. Most of the learning methods used in Africa today were installed by colonial educational systems, often reducing the learner to an empty container waiting to be filled with lecture after lecture. As a result, there is a cry throughout Africa for an education that can empower the learner to think critically, to love both God and others, and to bring change in his or her community. This is what education for holistic transformation is all about. This book came about as a result of a doctoral study conducted in Kenya, which featured both Christian higher educational institutions and public universities in a unique comparative analysis that will be helpful to educational leaders on both sides. Readers will learn that transformation is a discovery that takes place through change of perspective. As this research reveals, this new perspective is triggered by a new revelation, a new truth, a provoking thought, a shocking observation, or a new testimony. Thus, the process of holistic transformation takes place through divine revelation, self-reflection, written material, and "the other."

Author : Patrick M. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Johannes Huhmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638902366

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How Far Did the Impact of Western Education on Africans Vary Between Different Territories Or Colonies in Terms of Their Impact on the Emergence of Nationalism and the Struggle for Independence? by Johannes Huhmann Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 71 von 80, University of Manchester (Department of History), course: Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Africa, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The aim of this essay is to discuss in how far the impact of western education on Africans varied between different territories or colonies in terms of their impact on the emergence of nationalism and the struggle for independence. Education was a major tool in the cultural conquest of Africa and the colonising powers realized this quite early. Missionaries were among the first to make serious efforts to introduce a western style education in the early nineteenth century. To the same extent different colonial powers approached the colonization and administration of their territories differently, approaches to educate the Africans differed. Western education had an impact on the African societies during colonial rule, in the process of decolonization and also in the time after independence. As said, I want to focus on the impact of educational efforts on the struggle for independence and the nationalist movements in Africa. To do this, I chose three territories as case studies which were administered by three different European powers: The Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast and the Be lgian Congo. Methodologically, I opted to work through a list of questions which I grouped into six categories. The questions are: 1. When did education get introduced in this colony? 2. By whom was the education conducted and who had control over it? 3. How was the educational system outlined and how big was the proportion of Africans that were schooled? 4. Where and when was the vernacular, where and when the language of the colonisers used in the educational process? 5. What were the underlying ideologies and colonial policies that determined the education? 6. In what kind of jobs or functions and with what kind of attitudes or orientations did the e

Author : Abdullahi, Abdurahman
Publisher : Adonis and Abbey Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909112797

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Making Sense of Somali History by Abdullahi, Abdurahman Pdf

In the last three decades, Somalia has been associated with such horrible terms as 'state collapse', 'civil wars', 'foreign intervention', 'warlordism', 'famine', 'piracy' and 'terrorism'. This depiction was in contradiction to its earlier images as the cradle of the human race, the kernel of ancient civilizations, the land of Punt, a homogeneous nation-state and the first democratic state in Africa. So how did things fall apart in the country? This Volume 1 of a two-volume narrative, Dr. Abdullahi explores the history of the people of Somali peninsula since ancient times, the advent of Islam and colonialism, the rise and fall of Somali nationalism and the perspectives of the Somali state collapse. The book uses a unique thematic approach and analysis to make sense of Somali history by emphasizing the responsibility of Somali political elites in creating and perpetuating the disastrous conditions in their country.

Author : Obed Mfum-Mensah
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498574051

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

The book uses marginality as a critical discourse to outline ways colonial and postcolonial education policies in sub-Saharan Africa created and perpetuated it and deprived some groups from realizing the democratic equality role of education. It provides new ideas for integrating policies to address the educational needs of marginalized children.

Author : Mark S. Johnson,Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317813378

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Education in World History by Mark S. Johnson,Peter N. Stearns Pdf

Education in World History shows how broad currents in transnational history have interacted with trends in educational organization and teaching practices over time. From antiquity and early classical societies to present day, this book highlights the ways in which changes in religious and intellectual life and economic patterns in key world regions have generated developments in education. Since the postclassical period, cross-cultural connections have also influenced educational change. In more recent times, transnational dialogues and mobility have played a vital role in shaping educational patterns. Ranging through South and East Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, the book also considers how the impact of modern forces, such as industrialization and nationalism, have transformed education in fundamental ways. Throughout the volume, Mark S. Johnson and Peter N. Stearns emphasize the tensions between elite and state educational interests and more diverse popular demands for access and, often, for more innovative pedagogy. Suitable for introductory world history and history of education courses, this lively overview reconsiders the history of education from the perspective of world and comparative history.

Author : Roland Sintos Coloma
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1433106493

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Postcolonial Challenges in Education by Roland Sintos Coloma Pdf

Coloma compiles 20 essays that trace the history of imperialism and colonialism as well as anti-imperialism and decolonization, noting that there is a lack of consideration of education in studies of these topics and vice versa. Education scholars from North America, the UK, Australia, and Qatar consider the operations and effects of colonialism during and after occupation and the way colonized individuals navigate and resist imperialism in schooling, educational policy, and cultural and knowledge production.

Author : David P. Sandgren
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299287832

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Mau Mau’s Children by David P. Sandgren Pdf

In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence, approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school where Sandgren taught, the sons of Gikuyu farmers rose to the challenges of this post colonial era and, in time, entered Kenyan society as adults, joining Kenya’s first generation of post colonial elites. In Mau Mau’s Children, Sandgren has reconnects with these former students. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, he provides readers with a collective biography of the lives of Kenya’s first postcolonial elite, stretching from their 1940s childhood to the peak of their careers in the 1990s. Through these interviews, Mau Mau’s Children shows the trauma of growing up during the Mau Mau Rebellion, the nature of nationalism in Kenya, the new generational conflicts arising, and the significance of education and Gikuyu ethnicity on his students' path to success.