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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The case of education and culture conflict in Eastern Africa |
Authors: | Mazrui, Ali A. Wagaw, Teshome |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | Présence africaine |
Issue: | 117-118 |
Pages: | 209-238 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | East Africa |
Subject: | education |
Abstract: | Three functions of education - training, socialisation, and acculturation - and four educational foci - sociocentric, theocentric, ecocentric, and egocentric - are examined in relation to the four traditions of educational experience present in Eastern Africa - the indigenous, the Afro-Christian, the Afro-Islamic, and the Euro-Modern. The educational struggle in Eastern Africa has three aims: the elimination of Euro-Modernity, the creation of Afro-Modernity and the gradual integration of the indigenous, the Afro-Islamic and the Afro-Christian traditions of education under the broader umbrella of Afro-Modernisation. This triple process of eliminating the European paradigm, creating a new African one and integrating African traditions in the context of the newer indigenous paradigm, would require a new balance between and among society, the individual, the environment, and the realm of the spiritual. Ref. |