The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Africa's Educational Wealth.- 2. Ancient Africa Education: Egypt and Nubia.- 3. East Africa Indigenous Education before the Era of Islam.- 4. Anglophone Africa: Education, Religion, and Nation Building, 1960s-1990s.- 5. Conduit and Gatekeeper: Practices and Contestations of Language within Informal and Formal Education in Senegal.- 6. Islamic/Muslim Education in Africa: From North to West Africa.- 7. Christianity and Vocational Education in Africa.- 8. Central African Education: Indigenous to Western.- 9. Reconstructing African Philosophies of Education: Historical and Actual Analyses.- 10. African Indigenous Knowledge, African State Formation, and Education.- 11. African Education and Cultural Belief Systems: Extrapolations from Igboland, Nigeria.- 12. African Theatre as Indigenous Education.- 13. North Africa Nomadic Indigenous Knowledge: Ayt Khabbach Nomads Urban Challenges in Southeastern Morocco.- 14. Elders' Cultural Knowledges and African Indigeneity.- 15. East Africa and Indigenous Knowledge: Its Nature, Contents, Aims, Contemporary Structures and Vitality.- 16. Gendered Sphere of Traditional Knowledge in Morocco.- 17. African Indigenous Knowledges and the Decolonization of Education in Africa.- 18. Islamic Education in Contemporary Africa.- 19. East Africa and Contemporary Islamic Education: The Unholy Triple Alliance Conundrum.- 20. Central and Southern Africa: Islamic Education Variations.- 21. Islamic Philosophies of Education in Africa.- 22. Gendering Contemporary Islamic Education.- 23. Francophone Education Intersectionalities: Gender, Language, Religion.- 24. Islamic Education and the Quest for Islamic Identity: The Case of Ghana.- 25. The Africam ajami. Case of Senegal.- 26. Muslim Education Policies and Epistemologies in African Tertiary Education.- 27. African Education: Consciencism or Neo-Colonialism.- 28. Visual Studies of Community Schools in an Inner Suburb of Bamako.- 29. Afro-Anglophone Education.- 30. Universal Primary Education: Facets and Meanings.- 31. Tertiary Education in Anglophone West Africa: Contextualizing Challenges.- 32. Whose African Education is it?.- 33. Rethinking Pedagogy and Education Practice in Africa: Comparative Analysis Liberative and Ubuntu Education Philosophies.- 34. Where Religion and Education Meet in Africa.- 35. Linguistic and Cultural Rights in STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics.- 36. A Gendered Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge, Customary Law and Education in Africa: An Anti-Colonial Project.- 37. Diaspora Migrations: Brain Drain or Symbiosis.- 38. Afrocentric Education in North America: An Introduction.-