Issues in African Education Sociological

"This new, comprehensive collection brings together the views of African academics to address major issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within the theoretical framework of sociology of education. Their essays bring much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective, while providing up-to-date analysis of major issues in African education today."--BOOK JACKET.

Ali A. Abdi is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Ailie Cleghorn is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal.

List of Tables and Figures

vii

List of Contributors

ix

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

Part I Theoretical Foundations

Sociology of Education: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives

3

(22)

Ali A. Abdi

Ailie Cleghorn

African Philosophies of Education: Counter-Colonial Criticisms

25

(18)

Ali A. Abdi

National ``Development'' and African Universities: A Theoretical and Sociopolitical Analysis

43

(22)

Korbla P. Puplampu

Part II Culture, Language, and the Curriculum

Reclaiming Our Memories: The Education Dilemma in Postcolonial African School Curricula

65

(20)

Edward Shizha

Surveying Indigenous Knowledge, the Curriculum, and Development in Africa: A Critical African Viewpoint

85

(16)

Nkosinathi Mkosi

Language Issues in African School Settings: Problems and Prospects in Attaining Education For All

101

(22)

Ailie Cleghorn

Cultural Perspectives on Science and Technology Education

123

(18)

Meshach B. Ogunniyi

Part III Gender and Equity Issues in Education

Women's Education and Social Development in Africa

141

(18)

Benedicta Egbo

Achieving Gender Equity in Africa's Institutions of Tertiary Education: Beyond Access and Representation

159

(16)

Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika

Gender and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Women in Development (WID) Approach and its Alternatives

175

(18)

Codou Diaw

Quandaries, Prospects, and Challenges of Nomadic Educational Policy for Girls in Sub-Saharan-Africa

193

(26)

Lantana Usman

Narratives from Ghana: Exploring Issues of Difference and Diversity in Education

219

(22)

George J. Sefa Dei

Alireza Asgharzadeh

Part IV Education and Change

Democratizing Education in Zambia: Sociohistorical Analyses

241

(18)

Edward Shizha

Ali A. Abdi

At the Mercy of Informal Learning: Education and Development in Stateless Somalia

259

(16)

Ali A. Abdi

Social Organization of Teacher Education in Africa: A Kenyan Case Study

275

(22)

Njoki Wane

The Role of the School in Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Coping with Forces of Change

297

(20)

Okwach Abagi

Index

317

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Issues in African Education Sociological Perspectives

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