Re-Visioning Education in Africa Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Takyi-Amoako, Emefa J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Assié-Lumumba, N'Dri Thérèse (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: International education .; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa's formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges faced by governments from the local and national level and beyond. Along the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Re-visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-inspired education for humanity
• 1. The Humanist African Philosophy of Ubuntu: Anti-colonial historical and educational analyses
• 2. Ubuntu and Pan-Africanism: The Dialectics of Learning about Africa
• 3. On the educational potential of Ubuntu
• 4. Conceptualizing Gender and Education in Africa from an Ubuntu Frame
• 5. Reclaiming the Education that Africa Lost
• 6. Ubuntu as humanistic education: Challenges and Perspectives for Africa?
• 7. Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 8. Re-visioning Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs): Prospects and Promises within the framework of Ubuntu Paradigm
• 9. Ubuntu as a framework for the adoption and use of e-learning in Ghanaian Public Universities
• 10. Addressing the Challenge of Coloniality in the Promises of Modernity and Cosmopolitanism to Higher Education: De-bordering, De-centering/
De-peripherizing, and De-colonializing
• 11. Towards an Alternative Approach to Education Partnerships in Africa: Ubuntu, the Confluence and the Post-2015 Agenda
• 12. Conclusion: Towards an Ubuntu-Inspired Continental Partnership on Education for Sustainable Development in Africa: African Union Commission Agenda 2063 Education Strategy.