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Re-Visioning Education in Africa = Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Re-Visioning Education in Africa/ edited by Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako, N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba.
Reminder of title:	Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity /
other author:	Takyi-Amoako, Emefa J.
Description:	XV, 257 p. 37 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	International education . -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70043-4
ISBN:	9783319700434

Re-Visioning Education in Africa = Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity /
Re-Visioning Education in AfricaUbuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity /[electronic resource] :edited by Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako, N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba. - 1st ed. 2018. - XV, 257 p. 37 illus.online resource.

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.

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. .

ISBN: 9783319700434

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-70043-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1253475
International education .

LC Class. No.: LB43

Dewey Class. No.: 370.116

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