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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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1684582025-10-23T05:01:05Z The Education Alibi Cooper, Elizabeth Alber, Erdmute Njoya, Wandia 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 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. 2025-10-23T05:01:03Z 2025-10-23T05:01:03Z 2025-10-22T08:32:30Z 2025 book ONIX_20251022T102823_9780472905348_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107724 9780472905348 9780472077755 9780472057757 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168458 eng African Perspectives open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107724/1/9780472905348.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14417360 10.3998/mpub.14417360 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472905348 9780472077755 9780472057757 338 open access |
| spellingShingle | 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 The Education Alibi |
| title | The Education Alibi |
| title_full | The Education Alibi |
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| title_short | The Education Alibi |
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| topic | 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 |
| topic_facet | 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 |
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