Schooling and difference in Africa : democratic challenges in a contemporary context / George J. Sefa Dei [and others].

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Dei, George J. Sefa (George Jerry Sefa), 1954-

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text

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computer

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ISBN:

9781442679610
1442679611
0802090192
9780802090195
9786611991715
6611991719

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Schooling and difference in Africa.DDC classification:

306.43/09667

LOC classification:

LC191.8.G4 S36 2006eb

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DU 6009
DV 2275
5,3

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Contents:

Threads of Inclusive Schooling -- Understanding Difference: Method and Practice -- Acknowledging Difference, Responding to Diversity -- Majority and Minority Relations: A Question of Power -- Complicating Schooling: The Question of Ethnicity -- Gendered Subjects: Extending Beyond a Critique of Culture -- The Economics of Schooling: Class and Poverty -- Resisting Normalcy: Disability and Inclusive Schooling -- Language as a Site of Exclusion -- Evoking the Sacred: Religion and Spirituality in Schools -- Concluding with a Comparative Lens: Lessons and Possibilities.

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Summary: Since the 1950s when most African countries gained political independence, schooling has presented very difficult challenges. In the discussion of these challenges, however, the issue of diversity has received relatively little attention. Schooling and Difference in Africa aims to understand how differences such as ethnicity, class, gender, language, religion, and disability play out in African schools systems, and more specifically in Ghana. Together, George J. Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Sharon Eblaghie Bahador, and Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan promote 'educational inclusion' in the context of African schooling. The aspects of diversity explored in this study include: minority / majority relations, race, ethnicity, gender, language, class, religion, and physical (dis)ability. The authors build their analyses of these issues around a series of interviews, which project a perspective that policy makers and administrators rarely seek out. By studying the challenges of inclusive education in Ghana and, further, by making comparisons with the Canadian context, this volume seeks to shed light on the ongoing struggle for an empowering school system in Africa and elsewhere.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327) and index.

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Since the 1950s when most African countries gained political independence, schooling has presented very difficult challenges. In the discussion of these challenges, however, the issue of diversity has received relatively little attention. Schooling and Difference in Africa aims to understand how differences such as ethnicity, class, gender, language, religion, and disability play out in African schools systems, and more specifically in Ghana. Together, George J. Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Sharon Eblaghie Bahador, and Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan promote 'educational inclusion' in the context of African schooling. The aspects of diversity explored in this study include: minority / majority relations, race, ethnicity, gender, language, class, religion, and physical (dis)ability. The authors build their analyses of these issues around a series of interviews, which project a perspective that policy makers and administrators rarely seek out. By studying the challenges of inclusive education in Ghana and, further, by making comparisons with the Canadian context, this volume seeks to shed light on the ongoing struggle for an empowering school system in Africa and elsewhere.

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