Overview
- Offers a comprehensive survey of the field of African Education by providing historical and contextual review of education systems within the continent
- Describes African education knowledge bases to highlight their contributions and ongoing developments
- Provides scholars focused on African education histories, theory, policy and curriculum design a necessary reference volume that maintains Africa’s rich Indigenous Knowledge bases as central to demonstrating the historical and contemporary intersections of African education across the continent as well as within the global context
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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Africa Histories of Education
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Africa Indigenous Education and Knowledge
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge
Editors: Jamaine M. Abidogun, Toyin Falola
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38277-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 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 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38276-6Published: 03 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38279-7Published: 03 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38277-3Published: 02 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIII, 808
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Creativity and Arts Education, History of Education, Ethnicity in Education