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Title:Politics in African education
Author:Harber, CliveISNI
Year:1989
Pages:202
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Macmillan
ISBN:033346480X
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:political education
primary education
secondary education
Abstract:This book is a collection of essays demonstrating the relationship between schools, political socialization and political education in a range of African countries south of the Sahara. Detailed case studies of politics in education in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are followed by a review of published research examining aspects of this relationship in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, Mali, Togo, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zambia. The author provides the reader with a conprehensive discussion of politics and education in a selection of African countries and offers insights into the problems facing African governments in their desire to provide in schools, the political knowlegde, skills and values necessary to equip the new generation for 'nationhood' and 'citizenship'.