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| Title: | Psychology and Higher Education in Africa: Problems and Impressions |
| Author: | Bloom, Leonard |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Periodical: | African Social Research |
| Issue: | 22 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 131-146 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | higher education psychology Education and Oral Traditions Health and Nutrition |
| Abstract: | In Africa, as in the West, students of Psychology may experience cognitive dissonance in reconciling professional with lay methods of analysing and understanding human behaviour and experience. In Africa particular problems arise less from the technicalities of Psychology than from the conflict between the positivist, empirical and materialist approach of Psychology, and the moral or religious and non-empirical cognitive systems that characterise much of African traditional thought. Moreover Psychology often generates an antiauthoritarian and sceptical frame of mind that contradicts traditional reverence for authority and traditions. It is suggested that a crosscultural perspective in Psychology teaching is an essential element in the education of a student into a vital and challenging profession. Ref., notes. |