Overview
- Analyses the trends and differences for schooling throughout the sub-Saharan region
- Includes case studies from a number of countries to provide precise detail alongside the wider descriptions
- Asks whether schooling in sub-Saharan Africa is achieving its desired outcomes or if it is held back by difficulties regarding gender, inequality and violence amongst others
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a comprehensive text for those interested in formal education in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides a thought-provoking overview of the key educational ideas, themes and issues facing schooling in Africa today, by drawing on a wide literature to examine evidence concerning both educational policy and the working realities of primary and secondary schools in Africa. Based on the author’s forty years of experience in researching and publishing on education in Africa, it takes a balanced but critical approach to analysing education in Africa, and discusses both positive and negative patterns across the region, as well as identifying differences between and within countries. The book examines major questions of educational provision, structure, content and process but does so in a way that raises challenging questions about gender, inequality, violence, authoritarianism and democracy in education as well the fundamental question of whether education is achieving its desired outcomes. It will be of great interest to students and researchers working in the fields of comparative and international education, education and international development, African education, African studies and development studies.
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About the author
Clive Harber is Emeritus Professor of International Education at the University of Birmingham, UK, and was previously Head of the School of Education at the then University of Natal, now KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. He has carried out research in many different African countries and has published widely on education in Africa and on education and development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Subtitle: Policy, Practice and Patterns
Authors: Clive Harber
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57382-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57381-6Published: 20 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86149-4Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57382-3Published: 12 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 283
Topics: Schools and Schooling, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Education Policy