Issues in African Education: Sociological Perspectives

Abdi, A.; Cleghorn, A.

This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus aim to be of interest internationally, to those who work in such fields as social and political foundations of comparative and international education, and development studies, including university professors, teacher educators, researchers, school teachers, tertiary education students, consultants and policy makers.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-12-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403970695

DOI: 10.1057/9781403977199

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 320