Titelangaben
The Education Alibi : Tracing Education's Entanglements Across Contemporary Africa.
Hrsg.: Cooper, Elizabeth ; Alber, Erdmute ; Njoya, Wandia
Ann Arbor
:
University of Michigan Press
,
2025
.
- (African Perspectives
)
ISBN 9780472057757
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14417360
Abstract
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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| Publikationsform: | Buch / Monografie |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Education; Africa; School; Schooling |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie > Lehrstuhl Sozialanthropologie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber Profilfelder > Advanced Fields > Afrikastudien |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
| Eingestellt am: | 28 Nov 2025 06:26 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 28 Nov 2025 06:26 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/95350 |