The Education Systems of Africa

The Education Systems of Africa
Author: Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 984
Release: 2021-02-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783030442187

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This research handbook provides meaningful coverage on current trends in the dynamic education systems of Africa. It presents the main findings on current issues in the education systems from different African countries. Specifically, it examines education policies and what can be done differently by African nations to strengthen these policies. The objective is to highlight African nations’ capacity to address issues of social justice to generate ideas that can help translate the increasing strengths of the continent into achieving sustainable development.

Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms

Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms
Author: Clementina Acedo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012-09-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9460919510

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Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in education. Although education quality has acquired high priority in the past few decades, the multiplicity of conceptualizations of quality also reflects the concerns and foci of multiple stakeholders. Coming to an understanding of quality education involves careful analysis of the context from which any particular reform or program emerges and of the continuing struggle to define and achieve it. Two main questions persist: who benefits from particular policies focused on quality? And what are the potential tradeoffs between a focus on quality, equitable distribution of education, and inclusion of various traditional expectations? This book explores notions of quality as understood within various systems of national, formal, and nonformal education. Also it considers the tensions that arise with the introduction of new standardized notions of quality in relation to international measures and educational reforms in developing countries. In all cases, specific national issues and concerns compete with global agendas.Challenges to quality that are given particular attention in the book chapters include changing definitions of quality, high expectations for education and issues with implementation, and the introduction of English as a means to achieve quality in a globalizing world. Special attention is also given to possible actions that support a more equitable education without ignoring the requisite of quality. The final chapter suggests three models/choices for seeking higher quality and guiding the educational future of nations.

Development of Education in Africa

Development of Education in Africa
Author: D. N. Sifuna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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This book is a broad survey of the development of education in Africa, with a special focus on Kenya. The main purpose of the book is to investigate the development of education as influenced by the English and French colonial powers; thus it focuses on francophone West and Central Africa and anglophone West, Eastern and Southern Africa. The chapters follow major historical events such as colonisation, the two World Wars, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, and the achievement of independence which are important landmarks in the history of education.

Education in Kenya

Education in Kenya
Author: George S. Eshiwani
Publisher: East African Publishers
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1993
Genre: Curriculum planning
ISBN: 9789966469991

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Development of Education in Kenya

Development of Education in Kenya
Author: Rosalind W. Mutua
Publisher: Kampala : East African Literature Bureau
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1975
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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A History of Modern Education in Kenya (1895-1991)

A History of Modern Education in Kenya (1895-1991)
Author: Sorobea Nyachieo Bogonko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1992
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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A critical analysis of the development of education in Kenya between 1895 and 1991.

Gender and Education in Kenya

Gender and Education in Kenya
Author: Esther Mukewa Lisanza
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2021-04-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793634939

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Gender and Education in Kenya explores the intersections of curriculum, pedagogy, policy, and gender. The contributors study depictions of gender in textbooks, the presence and roles of girls and women within classrooms in Kenya, and female leadership in education, arguing that, despite recent policies put in place by the Kenyan government to ensure gender parity in education, there is still a need to make curriculum more gender responsive. Gender and Education in Kenya examines the disparity between male and female representation in education and advocate for more training for teachers about gender-related educational policies and implementing gender-responsive objectives in classrooms. The collection concludes with a study of the intersection of gender and disability with a chapter that explores the additional challenges for a blind girl in school and the lack of policies in place to help disabled students.

Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms

Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms
Author: Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2020-11-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030570398

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This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of development. The study includes system level reforms in jurisdictions where students achieve high levels in international assessments of basic literacies, such as Singapore and Ontario, Canada, as well as in nations where students achieve much lower levels, such as Kenya, Mexico, Punjab-Pakistan and Zimbabwe. The chapters examine system-level reforms that focus on strengthening the capacity to teach the basics, as in Ontario and Pakistan, as well as reforms that aim at building the capacity to teach a much broader set of competencies and skills, such as Kenya, Mexico, Singapore and Zimbabwe. The volume includes systems at very different levels of spending per student and reforms at various points in the cycle of policy implementation, some just starting, some struggling to survive a governmental transition, and others that have been in place for an extended period of time. From the comparative study of these reforms, we aim to provide an understanding of how to build the capacity of education systems to teach 21st century skills at scale in diverse settings.

Kenya Education Commission Report

Kenya Education Commission Report
Author: Kenya. Education Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1964
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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Education, Society, and Development

Education, Society, and Development
Author: Dharam P. Ghai
Publisher: Nairobi : Oxford University Press, 1974 [i.e. 1975]
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1975
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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