Title
The palgrave handbook of african education and indigenous knowledge
Abstract
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.
Department(s)
History
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38277-3
Keywords
African renaissance, History of education, Indigenous knowledge system, National commission for nomadic education, Post-colonial
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Recommended Citation
Abidogun, Jamaine M., and Toyin Falola, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
Journal Title
The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge
