Issues in African Education: Sociological Perspectives

by Ali A. Abdi (Editor), A. Cleghorn (Editor)

This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus aim to be of interest internationally, to those who work in such fields as social and political foundations of comparative and international education, and development studies, including university professors, teacher educators, researchers, school teachers, tertiary education students, consultants and policy makers.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published November 5, 2005

About the author

Ali A. Abdiis Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.