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Spoken English and Education
Clark, Ebun – West African Journal of Education, 1975
The art of communication is examined along with the need for improvement in spoken English in West Africa. Recommendations for improving the general standard of the language in the nation are offered. (LBH)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Developing Nations, Educational Responsibility, English (Second Language)
Schooling: A Political Analysis of the Distribution of Power and Privilege.
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Yeakey, Carol Camp – Oxford Review of Education, 1981
Analyzes the crucial role of schooling in the economic, social, and political development of a citizenry in the developing nations of Africa. Information is presented on the family and the school, political socialization, the recruitment of elites through the school system, vestiges of colonialism, the impact of independence, and transmission of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Attainment, Educational Responsibility, Educational Trends
East African Higher Education from the Community Standpoint
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Court, David – Higher Education, 1977
The case of the University of Dar es Salaam illustrates how the concept of community education has been adapted to meet the needs of a university in a developing society. Community-orientation in terms of teaching, research, and other activities is described, and problems of access, admission, control, and participation are considered. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Role, Community Education, Cultural Context
Education, Responsibility and Democratic Justice: Cultivating Friendship to Alleviate Some of the Injustices on the African Continent
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Waghid, Yusef – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2007
In South Africa there is widespread recognition amongst university educators that the new outcomes-based education (OBE) system can prevent instrumental thinking, particularly in view of OBE's agenda to encourage critical learning. However, what these educators do not necessarily take into account is that many students are not always ready to deal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcome Based Education, African Culture, Racial Segregation
The Development Ideal in Higher Education: The Experience of Kenya and Tanzania.
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Court, D. – Higher Education, 1980
Some instructive experience about the potential and limits of a meaningful role for African universities in the 1980s is discussed. The challenge of the 1980s is to convince African governments and national populations that university contributions to national development lie in the ability to train minds and a thinking society. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Role, Community Development, Developing Nations
Education in Emerging Africa; A Select and Annotated Bibliography. Michigan State University Education in Africa Series 1.
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Brembeck, Cole S.; Keith, John P. – 1962
This selected and annotated bibliography deals with the role of education in social change and attempts to bring together the educational literature relevant to the developing nations of Africa. The educational experiences of the emerging nations provide rich source material for anyone probing the enlarging role of education. Most of the documents…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Books
Adult Education, Literacy Campaigns and Relevant Educational Adaptations for Community Development in Africa. Part 1. Fundamental Facts and Principles in Practical Perspective.
Fourie, J. J. – 1978
The number of illiterates in Africa is increasing, thereby lending urgency to the need for universal adult education and functional literacy compaigns, according to chapter 1 of this detailed research report. Chapter 2 discusses the meaning, history, and nature of adult education in other countries (briefly), and in Africa (in greater detail).…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies