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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817850303321

Autore

Brock-Utne Birgit <1938->

Titolo

Whose education for all? : recolonization of the African mind / / Birgit Brock-Utne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Falmer Press, 2000

ISBN

1-135-57828-1

1-135-57829-X

1-280-33562-9

0-585-45178-8

0-203-90365-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Collana

Garland reference library of social science ; ; v. 1445. Studies in education/politics ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

379.1/296

Soggetti

Education - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Education - Aims and objectives - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Educational assistance - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Series Editor's Introduction; Introduction; Establishing Education Policies for Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critique; Whose Education for All?; Education Policies for Sub-Saharan Africa as Viewed by the World Bank; The Formulation of Educational Policies and the Coordination of Aid; Some Examples; African Culture and the Content of Schooling; A Renewed Curriculum Dependency?; Education for All; In Whose Language?; Language of Instruction in Tanzania and Namibia; A Life after Jomtien for the African Universities?; Globalization of Learning

Whose Globe and What Learning?The Role of the African Universities; Africanization of the Universities of South Africa; Yes, Whose Education for All Is It?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since 1990, when the phrase "education for all" was first coined at the World Bank conference in Jomtien, Thailand, a battle has raged over its meaning and its impact on education in Africa. In this thought-provoking new volume, Dr. Brock-Utne argues that "education for all"



really means "Western primary schooling for some, and none for others." Her incisive analysis demonstrates how this construct robs Africans of their indigenous knowledge and language, starves higher education in Africa, and thereby perpetuates Western dominion. In Dr. Brock-Utne's words, "A quadrangle building has been erected in a village of round huts."