Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa

Policy, Practice and Patterns

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eBook - PDF

Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa

Policy, Practice and Patterns

About this book

This book is a comprehensive text for those interested in formal education in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides a thought-provoking overview of the key educational ideas, themes and issues facing schooling in Africa today, by drawing on a wide literature to examine evidence concerning both educational policy and the working realities of primary and secondary schools in Africa. Based on the author's forty years of experience in researching and publishing on education in Africa, it takes a balanced but critical approach to analysing education in Africa, and discusses both positive and negative patterns across the region, as well as identifying differences between and within countries. The book examines major questions of educational provision, structure, content and process but does so in a way that raises challenging questions about gender, inequality, violence, authoritarianism and democracy in education as well the fundamental question of whether education is achieving its desired outcomes. It will be of great interest to students and researchers working in the fields of comparative and international education, education and international development, African education, African studies and development studies.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319573816
eBook ISBN
9783319573823
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1 Goals for Education
  5. Chapter 2 Educational Policy in Africa
  6. Chapter 3 Who Goes to School in Africa?
  7. Chapter 4 Human and Material Resources: Finance, Teachers and Physical Resources
  8. Chapter 5 Teacher Education
  9. Chapter 6 Curriculum and Assessment
  10. Chapter 7 Classroom Teaching Methods
  11. Chapter 8 Educational Management, Decentralisation and Privatisation
  12. Chapter 9 Violence in Schools
  13. Chapter 10 Special Educational Needs and Inclusion
  14. Chapter 11 Educational Outcomes
  15. Chapter 12 Contextual Differences in Schooling: Three Country Case Studies
  16. Chapter 13 Conclusion: Educational Patterns in Africa
  17. Index