Overview
- Critically reviews trends, policies, and practices of development education on the African continent
- Sheds light on Afrocentric perspectives of education for sustainable development in Africa
- Contains case studies on the role of education in promoting sustained improvement in living conditions in Africa
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Development education in Ghana
- Education for sustainable development in South Africa
- Global citizenship initiatives in Uganda
- Sustainable development goals
- Indigenous knowledge systems for development in Ghana
- Researcher involvement in community engaged research
- Development education and conflict resolution and peace
- Development education and poverty alleviation in Africa
- African universities and community engagement
- Gender and development
About this book
This edited volume uses an African-centred approach to examine a renewed vision of development education in Africa. The purpose of the volume is to supplant prevailing Western ideologies, traditions, and rhetoric in the development education discourse in Africa and to advocate for alternative paradigms, knowledges, beliefs, and practices through the effort of dialogue between competing orientations, values and experiences. The book argues that Africa's development challenges are uniquely African requiring indigenous African solutions. Consequently, this book offers an insightful collection of case studies and conceptual papers that examine how indigenous African knowledge, philosophies, traditions, beliefs, and values shape the theory and practice of development education in Africa. Reimagining Development Education in Africa exemplifies an interdisciplinary and multifaceted scholarship, addressing topical issues and advances in developmenteducation in Africa. The book discusses among other topics, Ubuntu-inspired education for sustainable development, decolonising African development education, Afrocentricity, Globalisation, and gender equality. This book is a must read for scholars and students interested in understanding indigenous educational efforts aimed at promoting sustained improvements in the quality of life of African peoples.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Olivia Tiwaa Kwapong is Associate Professor of Adult Education and currently Dean of the School of Continuing and Distance Education of the University of Ghana. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Ghana and has studied as a Special Doctoral Candidate at Harvard University. In 2013, she served as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Bloomsburg University in the USA. She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has supervised over 60 masters and doctoral students. She has authored 5 books and over 40 journal articles.
David Addae is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies, University of Ghana and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Adult Basic Education at the University of South Africa. His research interests include adult learning; global citizenship education; gender and development; feedback as dialogue; higher education development; adult literacy; learner support; and transformative learning. He pursues these interests through an interdisciplinary approach with an interpretivist philosophical lens.
John Kwame Boateng is Senior Lecturer in the School of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana. He received the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Award in 2014, which is University of Michigan’s Flagship program that has helped to retain and empower faculty working in African higher education institutions. His research interests cover distance learning and development education. He now serves as Head of the University of Ghana Learning Centers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reimagining Development Education in Africa
Editors: Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong Kwapong, David Addae, John Kwame Boateng
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96001-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96000-1Published: 07 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96003-2Published: 08 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96001-8Published: 06 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 254
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Education, general, Higher Education, Sociology of Education