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Re-Visioning Education in Africa Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako

Re-Visioning Education in Africa By Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako

Re-Visioning Education in Africa by Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako


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This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africas formal educational systems. Along the way, the editors and their contributors examine important policy questions to encourage fresh thinking on ways to improve the educational system and, in turn, to buoy the development of the region as a whole.

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Re-Visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity by Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako

This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africas formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges faced by governments from the local and national level and beyond. Along the way, the editors and their contributors examine important policy questions to encourage fresh thinking on ways to improve the educational system and, in turn, to buoy the development of the region as a whole.

About Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako

Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako is Executive Director and International Education and Education, Gender and Research Consultant atOxford ATP.
N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba is Professor of African, African Diaspora and Comparative/International Education at Cornell University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Re-visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-inspired education for humanity
1. The Humanist African Philosophy of Ubuntu: Anti-colonial historical and educational analyses
2. Ubuntu and Pan-Africanism: The Dialectics of Learning about Africa
3. On the educational potential of Ubuntu
4. Conceptualizing Gender and Education in Africa from an Ubuntu Frame
5. Reclaiming the Education that Africa Lost
6. Ubuntu as humanistic education: Challenges and Perspectives for Africa?
7. Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Sub-Saharan Africa
8. Re-visioning Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Prospects and Promises within the framework of Ubuntu Paradigm
9. Ubuntu as a framework for the adoption and use of e-learning in Ghanaian Public Universities
10. Addressing the Challenge of Coloniality in the Promises of Modernity and Cosmopolitanism to Higher Education: De-bordering, De-centering/De-peripherizing, and De-colonializing
11. Towards an Alternative Approach to Education Partnerships in Africa: Ubuntu, the Confluence and the Post-2015 Agenda
12. Conclusion: Towards an Ubuntu-Inspired Continental Partnership on Education for Sustainable Development in Africa: African Union Commission Agenda 2063 Education Strategy

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NPB9783319700427
9783319700427
3319700421
Re-Visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity by Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako
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Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2018-02-06
257
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