The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9783030382797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 808 str.

Jamaine M. Abidogun; Toyin Falola

Spis treści

Foreword

Part I: Africa Histories of Education

1. Introduction to Africa's Educational Wealth

2. Ancient Africa Education: Egypt and Nubia

3. East Africa Indigenous Education before the Era of Islam

4. Anglophone Africa: Education, Religion, and Nation Building, 1960s-1990s

5. Conduit and Gatekeeper: Practices and Contestations of Language within Informal and Formal Education in Senegal

6. Islamic/Muslim Education in Africa: From North to West Africa

7. Christianity and Vocational Education in Africa

8. Central African Education: Indigenous to Western

Part II: Africa Indigenous Education and Knowledge

9. Reconstructing African Philosophies of Education: Historical and Actual Analyses

10. African Indigenous Knowledge, African State Formation, and Education

11. African Education and Cultural Belief Systems: Extrapolations from Igboland, Nigeria

12. African Theatre as Indigenous Education

13. North Africa Nomadic Indigenous Knowledge: Ayt Khabbach Nomads Urban Challenges in Southeastern Morocco

14. Elders' Cultural Knowledges and African Indigeneity

15. East Africa and Indigenous Knowledge: Its Nature, Contents, Aims, Contemporary Structures and Vitality

16. Gendered Sphere of Traditional Knowledge in Morocco

17. African Indigenous Knowledges and the Decolonization of Education in Africa

Part III: Islamic or Muslim Education in Contempoary Africa

18. Islamic Education in Contemporary Africa

19. East Africa and Contemporary Islamic Education: The Unholy Triple Alliance Conundrum

20. Central and Southern Africa: Islamic Education Variations

21. Islamic Philosophies of Education in Africa

22. Gendering Contemporary Islamic Education

23. Francophone Education Intersectionalities: Gender, Language, Religion

24. Islamic Education and the Quest for Islamic Identity: The Case of Ghana

25. The Africam ajami. Case of Senegal

26. Muslim Education Policies and Epistemologies in African Tertiary Education

Part IV: African Education: National or Neo-Colonial Constructions

27. African Education: Consciencism or Neo-Colonialism

28. Visual Studies of Community Schools in an Inner Suburb of Bamako

29. Afro-Anglophone Education

30. Universal Primary Education: Facets and Meanings

31. Tertiary Education in Anglophone West Africa: Contextualizing Challenges

32. Whose African Education is it?

33. Rethinking Pedagogy and Education Practice in Africa: Comparative Analysis Liberative and Ubuntu Education Philosophies

34. Where Religion and Education Meet in Africa

35. Linguistic and Cultural Rights in STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics

36. A Gendered Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge, Customary Law and Education in Africa: An Anti-Colonial Project

37. Diaspora Migrations: Brain Drain or Symbiosis

38. Afrocentric Education in North America: An Introduction

O autorze

Jamaine M. Abidogun is Professor Emeritus at Missouri State University, USA. Her areas of specialization include interdisciplinary African and African American Studies and Curriculum and Instruction in Secondary Education Social Sciences. 

Toyin Falola is Professor of History, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research interests include African History and Africa and Diaspora Interdisciplinary Studies. 

Blurb

This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems–Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models—and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education within and across these systems. African education continues to find itself at once preserving its knowledge, while integrating Islamic and Western aspects in order to compete within this global reality. Contributors take up issues and themes of the positioning, resistance, accommodation, and transformations of indigenous education in relationship to the introduction of Islamic and later Western education. Issues and themes raised acknowledge the contemporary development and positioning of indigenous education within African societies and provide understanding of how indigenous education works within individual societies and national frameworks as an essential part of African contemporary society.