Year: 2019
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The principal agenda of this work is to explore the obvious disconnect between education curriculum in Africa and the continent’s indigenous knowledge systems. Africa’s persisting social and economic challenges is examined and questions are raised on the region’s paradigms of development, which are largely foreign. It shall be established in this chapter that for education to advance society, it must be relevant to the needs of the people concerned and be appropriate to the social and material environments in which it is pursued. Education must also be adaptive and cumulative—that is, responding to the exigencies of situations and be meaningful to members of the society, taking into account their aspirations and concepts of development.
Author: Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2943254114