This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus aim to be of interest internationally, to those who work in such fields as social and political foundations of comparative and international education, and development studies, including university professors, teacher educators, researchers, school teachers, tertiary education students, consultants and policy makers.
Author(s): Ali A. Abdi, Ailie Cleghorn
Edition: 1st
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 336
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Part I: Theoretical Foundations......Page 18
1 Sociology of Education: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives......Page 20
2 African Philosophies of Education: Counter-Colonial Criticisms......Page 42
3 National “Development” and African Universities: A Theoretical and Sociopolitical Analysis......Page 60
Part II: Culture, Language, and the Curriculum......Page 80
4 Reclaiming Our Memories: The Education Dilemma in Postcolonial African School Curricula......Page 82
5 Surveying Indigenous Knowledge, the Curriculum, and Development in Africa: A Critical African Viewpoint......Page 102
6 Language Issues in African School Settings: Problems and Prospects in Attaining Education For All......Page 118
7 Cultural Perspectives on Science and Technology Education......Page 140
Part III: Gender and Equity Issues in Education......Page 156
8 Women’s Education and Social Development in Africa......Page 158
9 Achieving Gender Equity in Africa’s Institutions of Tertiary Education: Beyond Access and Representation......Page 176
10 Gender and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Women in Development (WID) Approach and its Alternatives......Page 192
11 Quandaries, Prospects, and Challenges of Nomadic Educational Policy for Girls in Sub-Saharan–Africa......Page 210
12 Narratives from Ghana: Exploring Issues of Difference and Diversity in Education......Page 236
Part IV: Education and Change......Page 256
13 Democratizing Education in Zambia: Sociohistorical Analyses......Page 258
14 At the Mercy of Informal Learning: Education and Development in Stateless Somalia......Page 276
15 Social Organization of Teacher Education in Africa: A Kenyan Case Study......Page 292
16 The Role of the School in Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Coping with Forces of Change......Page 314
E......Page 334
N......Page 335
T......Page 336
Z......Page 337
