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Title:The case of education and culture conflict in Eastern Africa
Authors:Mazrui, Ali A.ISNI
Wagaw, TeshomeISNI
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.
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