Western Education and Political Domination in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Western Education and Political Domination in Africa write by Magnus O. Bassey. This book was released on 1999-10-30. Western Education and Political Domination in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contribution of Western education to the creation of an African-educated elite is well documented. What is not equally well documented is the fact that African-educated elites have used their education and the schools to perpetuate their dominance by denying the poor the knowledge necessary to protect their political and economic rights and to advance in society. On the other hand, educated elites in Africa make opportunities available to their own members through selective ordering, legitimization of certain language forms and learning processes in schools, and legitimization of elite codes and experiences to the exclusion of the histories, experiences, and worldviews of the poor. This book highlights the processes by which the poor in Africa have been disenfranchised and marginalized through schools' ascriptive mechanisms, and explains why African economic development is very slow.
Pedagogy of Domination
Pedagogy of Domination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pedagogy of Domination write by Mokubung O. Nkomo. This book was released on 1990. Pedagogy of Domination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Serving the Common Good
Serving the Common Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serving the Common Good write by Kiluba L. Nkulu. This book was released on 2005. Serving the Common Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Serving the Common Good combines critical analysis and interpretation of theory and practice for higher education in Africa and in the West. It demonstrates the current urgent need to articulate an educational ideal relevant to the cultural, economic, political, and social problems of the twenty-first century. Utilizing Julius K. Nyerere's vision of education for the common good - a pragmatically balanced articulation of a postcolonial African perspective on higher education - Kiluba L. Nkulu emphasizes a human-centered approach to community and national development. Serving the Common Good offers a provocative and unique perspective on the state of higher education in Africa, and will be useful in courses on African Studies, Education and Society, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, Higher Education and Leadership, Political Economy, and Sociology.
Class Formation and Civil Society
Class Formation and Civil Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Class Formation and Civil Society write by Patrick M. Boyle. This book was released on 2018-10-26. Class Formation and Civil Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance their offspring’s chances for survival and even domination in a world of scarce resources and limited opportunities for employment, elites see private schools as tools to shape newly emerging civil societies in Africa in their own image. From a theoretical perspective, the fresh evidence presented here shows that schooling has once again become a major social force influencing the balance of state and society in modern Africa. Re-examining an older political tradition of class analysis and integrating it into more recent civil society perspectives, the author shows that the abandonment of the unreliable education services of dysfunctional African states in favour of private schools has profound consequences for class articulation in societies dividing, once again, according to educational opportunities.
Nationalism and African Intellectuals
Nationalism and African Intellectuals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nationalism and African Intellectuals write by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2001. Nationalism and African Intellectuals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about how African intellectuals, influenced primarily by nationalism, have addressed the inter-related issues of power, identity politics, self-assertion and autonomy for themselves and their continent, from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Their major goal was to create a 'better Africa' by connecting nationalism to knowledge. The results have been mixed, from the glorious euphoria of the success of anti-colonial movements to the depressing circumstances of the African condition as we enter a new millennium. As the intellectual elite is a creation of the Western formal school system, the ideas it generated are also connected to the larger world of scholarship. This world is, in turn, shaped by European contacts with Africa from the fifteenth century onward, the politics of the Cold War, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. In essence, Africa and its elite cannot be fully understood without also considering the West and changing global politics. Neither can the academic and media contributions by non-Africans be ignored, as these also affect the ways that Africans think about themselves and their continent. Nationalism and African Intellectuals examines intellectuals' ambivalent relationships with the colonial apparatus and subsequent nation-state formations; the contradictions manifested within pan-Africanism and nationalism; and the relation of academic institutions and intellectual production to the state during the nationalism period and beyond. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
