Re-Visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity

ISBN-13: 9783319700427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 257 str.

Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako; N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba

Opis

This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa's 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.

Spis treści

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

         

O autorze

Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako is Executive Director and International Education and Education, Gender and Research Consultant at Oxford ATP.

N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is Professor of African, African Diaspora and Comparative/International Education at Cornell University, USA.

Blurb

This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa’s 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.