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African education and globalization : critical perspectives

Title
African education and globalization : critical perspectives / edited by Ali A. Abdi, Korbla P. Puplampu, and George J. Sefa Dei.
Publication
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Abdi, Ali A., 1955-
  • Puplampu, Korbla P.
  • Dei, George J. Sefa (George Jerry Sefa), 1954-
Description
ix, 214 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Educational sociology > Africa
  • Education > Economic aspects > Africa
  • Education and globalization > Africa
  • Sociologie de l'éducation > Afrique
  • Éducation > Aspect économique > Afrique
  • Éducation et mondialisation > Afrique
  • Education and globalization
  • Education > Economic aspects
  • Educational sociology
  • Bildungswesen
  • Globalisierung
  • Africa
  • Afrika
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
African education and globalization: an introduction / Ali A. Abdi, Korbla P. Puplampu, and George J. Sefa Dei -- Culture of education, social development, and globalization: historical and current analyses of Africa / Ali A. Abdi -- Critical perspectives on higher education and globalization in Africa / Korbla P. Puplampu -- Indigenous knowledges and globalization: an African perspective / George J. Sefa Dei and Alireza Asgharzadeh -- Higher education for Africa's women: prospects and challenges / Philomina E. Okeke -- Globalization, information technologies, and higher education in Africa: implications of the market agenda / Wisdom J. Tettey -- The contested politics of education in Ethiopia: leadership vacuity, mass/national alienation, ethnic atomization and resistance / Mikael Wossen-Taffesse -- Economic restructuring and education in Ghana / Rose B. Folson -- International financial institutions and education in South Africa: a critical discussion / Nkosinathi Mkosi -- Swaziland: towards an effective education for global citizenship / Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo and Joyce M. Djokoto -- Continuity or discontinuity in educational equity: contradictions in structural adjustment programs in Zimbabwe / Edward Shizha.
ISBN
  • 0739110411
  • 9780739110416
LCCN
  • 2006001165
  • 9780739110416
OCLC
  • ocm63116880
  • 63116880
  • SCSB-8907604
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library