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The main concerns of the philosophy of education usually look into issues that pertain to the rationale as well as the ways we educate people, the select learning methodologies we deploy to achieve such education, and the reasons the project of education is undertaken in the first place.
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Abdi, A.A. (2012). Clash of Dominant Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education. In: Abdi, A.A. (eds) Decolonizing Philosophies of Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-687-8_9
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