1st Edition
Challenging the Research Complex Education, External Influence, and Disrupting Dependence in Africa
By Joel Samoff
Copyright 2025
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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Starting with an overview of the intersection of local and global dynamics in education in Africa, this book focuses critical attention on education research and the problematic research process.
Education held extraordinary promise at Africa’s independence. Rapid expansion in access and imaginative innovations followed, but progress proved difficult to sustain. As frustration displaced... Read more
Foreword: African Education and Development as a Puzzle
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Education and Development: Global and Local 2. Education in Africa: Less Transformation, More Reproduction 3. Global Becomes Local 4. Research on Education in Africa: Continuities and Omissions 5. Challenging the Research Complex
Biography
Joel Samoff is affiliated with the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, USA, and retired Adjunct Professor of African Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
