Quality education and international partnership for textile and fashion : hidden potentials of East Africa / Xinfeng Yan, Lihong Chen, Hafeezullah Memon, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yan, Xinfeng, editor.

Chen, Lihong, editor.

Memon, Hafeezullah, editor.

Series:

SDGs and textiles

SDGS and textiles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile design--Study and teaching (Higher)--Africa, East.

Textile design.

Fashion design--Study and teaching (Higher)--Africa, East.

Fashion design.

International education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This book mainly focuses on SDG4- Quality Education, and aims to understand the past, present, and future of textile, fashion, apparel, and related study majors of East African countries. Professors and field experts in textile engineering of selected countries describe the potential and prospects of textile education and how it can lead to internationalization in the various chapters. It also discusses the textile university alliance and the potential for international education related to textiles in the developing region. With updated illustrations, images, data, graphs and tables, this book serves as a reference book for universities with textile engineering major in countries throughout the world.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Overview on textile and fashion industry in Tanzania: a need to realize its potential in poverty alleviation

3. Transformation of Higher Education in Kenya in the Context of Collaboration with China on Textile and Fashion

4. Textiles Engineering and Fashion Designing Pedagogies: Sudanese Higher Institutes for Textiles and Fashion Educations, Rural Development, Enterprises Investments, and their internationalization Perspectives

5. The Uganda Textile Higher Education: The Current Status

6. Overview Of Textile And Fashion Higher Education In Burundi

7. Education and Investment Opportunities in the Textile and Apparel Sector in Ethiopia - An Overview

8. Conclusions.

Notes:

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Quality education and international partnership for textile and fashion.

ISBN:

9789819913206

9819913209

OCLC:

1390403152

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.