Ideology and African Literature (a Pedagogical Approach)
Author | : Ernest Mathabela |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
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Author | : Ernest Mathabela |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
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Author | : Ernest Emenyo̲nu |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1847015115 |
Brings together experiences of teachers of African literature from around the world in the context of technological change. Focuses on theoretical and pedagogical approaches to the teaching of African Literature on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in 1958 drew universal attention not only to contemporary African creative imagination, but also established the art of the modern African novel. In 1986, Wole Soyinka became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and opened the 'gate' for other African writers. By the close of the 20th century, African Literature had gained world-wide acceptance and legitimacy in the academy and featured on the literature curriculum of schools and colleges across the globe. This specialissue of African Literature Today, examines the diverse experiences of teachers of African Literature across regional, racial, cultural and national boundaries. It explores such issues as student responses, productive pedagogical innovations, the impact of modern technology, case studies of online teaching, teaching Criticism of African Literature, and teaching African Literature in an age of multiculturalism. It is intended as an invaluable teacher's handbook and essential student companion for the effective study of African Literature. Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities Nigeria: HEBN
Author | : Abiola Irele |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Ernest Emenyo̲nu |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : African literature |
ISBN | : 9789780814175 |
Author | : Richard Tabulawa |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 2869785690 |
Since the 1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented attempts at reforming teacher and student classroom practices, with a learner-centred pedagogy regarded as an effective antidote to the prevalence of teacher-centred didactic classroom practices. Attempts at reform have been going on all over the continent. In fact, learner-centred pedagogy has been described as one of the most pervasive educational ideas in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Research has revealed that the major attempts have largely failed mainly because teachers have not been able to adopt instructional innovations to technical problems. This failure is also related to lack of resources, and poor teacher training programmes which lead to poor teacher quality, among others. This book attempts to explain why pedagogical change has not occurred in spite of the much energy and resources that have been committed to such reforms.The book also takes us inside what the author calls 'the socio-cultural world of African classrooms' to help us understand the reasons teachers dominate classroom life and rely disproportionately on didactic methods of teaching. Its conceptual analyses capture the best of both the sociology and the anthropology of education in contexts of poverty, as well as the politics of education.The book concludes that a socio-cultural approach should be the basis for developing culturally responsive indigenous pedagogies, though these may or may not turn out to be in any way akin to constructivist learner-centred pedagogies.
Author | : Biodun Jeyifo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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Author | : Emmanuel Ngara |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Emmanuel Ngara |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : African poetry |
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Emmanuel Ngara explores the relationship between the social vision of poets and their styles, and evaluates the ability of poets to communicate with their readers.
Author | : Oliver Lovesey |
Publisher | : Modern Language Association |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1603291830 |
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of postindependence Africa as well as a groundbreaking postcolonial theorist. His work, written first in English, then in Gĩkũyũ, engages with the transformations of his native Kenya after what is often termed the Mau Mau rebellion. It also gives voice to the struggles of all Africans against economic injustice and political oppression. His writing and activism continue despite imprisonment, the threat of assassination, and exile. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides resources and background for the teaching of Ngũgĩ's novels, plays, memoirs, and criticism. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," consider the influence of Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, and Joseph Conrad on Ngũgĩ; the role of women in and influence of feminism on his fiction; his interpretation and political use of African history; his experimentation with orality and allegory in narrative; and the different challenges of teaching Ngũgĩ in classrooms in the United States, Europe, and Africa."
Author | : Handel Kashope Wright |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Education |
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In A Prescience of African Cultural Studies, Handel Kashope Wright makes an argument for undertaking a necessary paradigm shift: from literature studies in Africa to African Cultural Studies. There are several major themes in this text; in particular, it rejects mainstream notions of literature as (self)deceptively «apolitical» and decidedly non-utilitarian. As an alternative, Wright proposes African Cultural Studies as an African-centered discourse and praxis that incorporates written, oral, and performance forms, and overtly addresses political and sociocultural issues. He articulates African Cultural Studies in relation to existing cultural studies, its taken for granted British origin and genealogy, and its global trajectories. Finally, Wright elaborates on African Cultural Studies by reconceptualizing drama (emphasizing performance over written text), incorporating film and electronic media and exploring the potential contribution African cultural studies could make to both the discourse and process of development in Africa.