Conflict and Harmony in Education in Tropical Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032153025 / Miękka / 2023 / 492 str.

Opis

Originally published in 1975, this book was something of a pioneering study. It examines the three main traditions of African educational development – indigenous, Islamic and ‘Western’ – and the resulting harmonies and conflicts that arise from these traditions.

Spis treści

Contributors.  Notes on Transliteration.  Introduction G. N. Brown and M. Hiskett  Part 1: Indigenous African Education  1. Introduction G. N. Brown and M. Hiskett  2. Indigenous Education in Yoruba Society Helen Callaway  3. Akan Indigenous Education F. L. Bartels  4. Indigenous Education in Sierra Leone T. J. L. Forde  5. Values in Indigenous African Education N. K. Dzobo  Part 2: Islamic Education in Tropical Africa  6. Introduction G. N. Brown and M. Hiskett  7. Conflict, Education and New Awareness in the Southern Sudan (1898–1956) Lilian M. Sanderson  8. Interaction between Traditional and Western Education in the Sudan: An Attempt towards a Synthesis Yusuf Fadl Hasan  9. Islamic Education in the Traditional and State Systems in Northern Nigeria M. Hiskett  10. Government and Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria (1900–40) J. P. Hubbard  11. The Islamic Education of an African Child: Stresses and Tensions L. O. Sanneh  12. The Modernisation of Islamic Education in Sierra Leone, Gambia and Liberia: Religion and Language H. J. Fisher  13. Religious Education among Muslims in Uganda M. L. Fitzgerald  14. Educational Progress and Retrogression in Guinea (1900–43) R. W. Johnson  15. Girls’ Education in the Northern Sudan (1898–1956) Lilian M. Sanderson  16. Western Education and Muslim Fulani/Hausa Women in Sokoto, Northern Nigeria Jean Trevor  Part 3: Interaction and the Current Situation  17. Introduction G. N. Brown and M. Hiskett  18. Secular Skills and Sacred Values in Uganda Schools: Problems of Technical and Moral Acculturation D. Ocaya-Lakidi and Ali A. Mazrui  19. Nationalism, Education and Imperialism in the Southern Sudan (1920–70) K. J. King  20. English versus African Languages as the Medium of Education in African Primary Schools B. W. Tiffen  21. Literary Studies and Cultural Context: A Comparative Study H. L. B. Moody  22. Traditional and Western Education in Mainland Tanzania: An Attempt at Synthesis? J. Cameron  23. The Organisation of Support and the Management of Self-Help Schools: A Case Study from Kenya J. E. Anderson  24. The Harmonisation of Traditional and Western Legal Education in Africa J. S. Read  25. Medical Ideas in Africa D. Stevenson  26. The Case for Teacher Participation in Development R. J. Smyke  27. An Educational Strategy for Reducing Conflict between the Traditional and the Western in African Education G. N. Brown  28. Obote’s Milton and Nyerere’s Shakespeare Ali A. Mazrui.  Appendix.  Index.

O autorze

Godfrey N. Brown and Mervyn Hiskett