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The Education Alibi : Tracing Education's Entanglements Across Contemporary Africa

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: African PerspectivesPublisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press, 2025Description: 1 Online-Ressource (1 electronic resource 338 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780472057757
  • 9780472077755
  • 9780472905348
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: 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 inequalitiesPPN: PPN: 1983963682Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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