Re-thinking Postcolonial Education in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century : Post-Millennium Development Goals /
What have postcolonial Sub-Saharan African countries achieved in their education policies and programmes? How far have they contributed to successful attainment of the targeted 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on education? What were the constraints and barriers for developing an education s...
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2017
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Table of Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; TABLES; FIGURE; INTRODUCTION: Re-thinking Education in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa
- Post-Millennium Development Goals; THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; REFERENCES; SECTION I: POST-MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND NEW PARADIGMS FOR EDUCATION FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; 1. POST-MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Reflections on Education and Development for All; INTRODUCTION; DEVELOPMENT AS A HEGEMONIC PROJECT; EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT; THE MDGS AFTER THE ECONOMIC CRISIS OF THE 1980S AND 1990S.
- CHALLENGES TO ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATIONDEFINITION AND OPERATIONALISATION OF PRIMARY EDUCATION; CHALLENGES IN MEASURING THE MDG #2; ISSUES IN DATA OF THE MDGS; HOMEGROWN SOLUTIONS TO AFRICAN PROBLEMS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 2. A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA'S SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY; INTRODUCTION; THE NATURE OF EDUCATION IN AFRICA; Education During the Colonial Globalisation Epoch; Education in the Postcolonial Globalisation Epoch; Education in the Digital Age Colonial Globalisation Epoch; NEW PARADIGM FOR AFRICA'S EDUCATION.
- MULTIGRADE EDUCATION AS THE NEW PARADIGMSTRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL MEASURES TO IMPLEMENT THE NEW PARADIGM; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; SECTION II: RELEVANCE OF POSTCOLONIAL EDUCATION; 3. UNPACKING THE RELEVANCE/IRRELEVANCE PROBLEMATIC OF Education IN ZIMBABWE; INTRODUCTION; THE PROBLEMATIC; A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNPACKING THE EDUCATION PROBLEMATIC; BENCHMARKS FOR A RELEVANT/QUALITY EDUCATION; A Relevant Philosophy; The Aim/s of Education; Completeness; Literacy and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) competency; CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES.
- 4. COGNITIVE JUSTICE AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS IN THE POSTCOLONIAL CLASSROOMINTRODUCTION; THE CONCEPT OF COGNITIVE JUSTICE; POSTMODERNIST THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE; CONCEPTUALISATION OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS; The Cultural Deficit Model; The Cultural Mismatch Model; The 'Culturally Different' Model; COGNITIVE JUSTICE IN THE CONTEXT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION; UTILITY OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS; RE-THINKING CURRICULUM REFORM IN EDUCATION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 5. RE-THINKING EDUCATION IN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA: Educating Munhu/Umuntu in Zimbabwe.
- INTRODUCTIONPOSTCOLONIAL THEORY; BACKGROUND TO THE COLONIAL LEGACY; THE NATURE OF POSTCOLONIAL EDUCATION; THE LANGUAGE ISSUE; EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 6. PARTISAN POLITICS IN CIVIC EDUCATION: Reflections on the Civic Education Landscape in Zimbabwe; INTRODUCTION; THE LANDSCAPE AND DEBATE ON CIVIC EDUCATION; Benefits and Challenges of Implementing Civic Education in the Curriculum; EDUCATION AS AN IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUS; THE PARTISAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IN ZIMBABWE; CIVIC EDUCATION IN ZIMBABWE; Nature of Partisan Civic Education in Zimbabwe; CONCLUSION; NOTE.
