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The Education Alibi

Education is generally promoted as the key to the future of Africa in global development discourses about the continent. Education’s official story in Africa continues to be one of innocence and public good, yet, since colonial times, education has constituted an area of intense contestation. The Ed...

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Format: Online
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: University of Michigan Press 2025
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education, critical education studies, global education, education for all, Africa, anthropology of education, anthropology of contemporary Africa, international development, inequality, education systems, African education, teaching, learning, literacy, discrimination, school, inequity
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy
Online-Zugang:ONIX_20251022T102823_9780472905348_4
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Zusammenfassung:Education is generally promoted as the key to the future of Africa in global development discourses about the continent. Education’s official story in Africa continues to be one of innocence and public good, yet, since colonial times, education has constituted an area of intense contestation. The Education Alibi asks if it is possible that while claiming to be doing one thing, education has also been doing another in African communities. The concept of the “alibi” shines an interrogative light on institutions’ and actors’ use of education to divert scrutiny from other effects. Through ethnographic research and critical analysis across the continent, this volume focuses on people’s lived experiences to demonstrate how contemporary education systems in fact deepen economic, racialized, gendered, urban-rural, linguistic, religious, and other intranational and international inequalities.

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