Reimagining development education in Africa / Olivia Adwoa Tiwaa Frimpong Kwapong, David Addae, John Kwame Boateng, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kwapong, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong, editor.

Addae, David, editor.

Boateng, John Kwame, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Africa.

Education.

Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1. African-centred Education and Development

Chapter 2. Decolonising African Development Education through Indigeneity

Chapter 3. Centrality of Glocalisation in Sustaining Development Education in Ghana and Nigeria

Chapter 4. Our Problems, Our Solutions: Culturally Relevant Education for Sustainable Development in Africa

Chapter 5. Actor Network Theory Analysis to viewing Development Education: Mainstreaming Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

Chapter 6. Rethinking professional researcher involvement in community engaged research: A case of adult education in South Africa

Chapter 7. Responsive Curriculum for TVET Colleges in South Africa: Quo Vodis?

Chapter 8. Oil Production, Spatial Dispossession, and Community Development in Africa: A Development Education Perspective

Chapter 9. Unlearning to give effect to development education from the perspective of global citizenship and food literacy

Chapter 10. Indigenous Discourses of Education for Development in Africa: The case of Ubuntu in South Africa

Chapter 11. Integration of quality in university research and community outreach for national development in Uganda

Chapter 12. Development education for poverty alleviation: Insights from Nigerian Women

Chapter 13. Promoting Gender equality in Ghana: Exploring sociocultural issues of gender disparity

Chapter 14. Development Education in Africa: Conclusions and Futurity.

Notes:

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Reimagining development education in Africa.

ISBN:

9783030960018

3030960013

OCLC:

1319010977

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