The Education Systems of Africa

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-44216-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 984 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1830 g

Reihe: Global Education Systems

This research handbook provides meaningful coverage on current trends in the dynamic education systems of Africa. It presents the main findings on current issues in the education systems from different African countries. Specifically, it examines education policies and what can be done differently by African nations to strengthen these policies. The objective is to highlight African nations’ capacity to address issues of social justice to generate ideas that can help translate the increasing strengths of the continent into achieving sustainable development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adeyemo, Kolawole Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Rethinking, Ethiopian Education System and Restoration Rectification.- Trends of Educational Policy Formulation and Implementation in Ethiopia.- Education decentralisation in South Africa.- Mediation as the management strategy for policy implementation.- Assessment of Education Financing and Quality on Sustainable Development of Nigeria.- Towards Achieving Agenda 2030 Goals on Quality Education for Sustainable Development in Zimbabwean Higher Education.- Faculty views of adaptive e-learning in a South African UniversityCelebrating diversity.- Monitoring and implementation of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Uganda.- The Education System of Kenya.- The Quality of Life and Education Ivorians.- The accessibility and affordability of higher education in Sub-Sahara-Africa.- Factors affecting student transition from conventional schools to an open school.- Implementation of NQF policy in Nambia public universities.- The theory and practice in teacher education in Zimbabwe.- Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) in Bostwana.- The educational challenges of children of street vendors in Ghana.- Lifelong learning and career progression of women in Nigeria.- Implementation of quality assurance in Nigerian and South African higher education.- The contemporary state of education in South Africa.- Management of school finances in South African schools.- Learner dropouts in South African schools.- Involving girls early in STEM for sustainable development.- Empowerment spaces of female school principals in South African township schools.- Counsellor education and training in Uganda.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. K. S. Adeyemo is a policy researcher with a particular focus on issues of quality assurance in higher education regionalization in the Global South. These two strands enable him to contribute to the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective on issues of international and comparative higher education over the last 10 years. He has used his interdisciplinary training in different fields of management and education to inform research in higher education policy and quality assurance. His recent book on higher education policy in the Philippines and ASEAN integration is published by Brill NV, Leiden, the Netherlands. This book deals with the globalization, internationalization, and integration of higher education at the regional level. He has published more than 15 scientific papers in peerreviewed journals/book chapters and scholarly books, given more than 13 presentations at the national and international level, and served in the funding committee of the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa and QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Awards (USA) as a judge. Similarly, he has written technical reports for British Council-DAAD and National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences BRICS Think Tank. Dr. Adeyemo is a higher education researcher of international repute. Dr. Adeyemo is the assistant editor for the leading Journal of International Students, a top-20 ranked academic journal in Higher Education (h5-median: 37, Scopus CiteScore:1.35), and #2 most-cited journal in international higher education according to GoogleScholar metrics.

Dr. Adeyemo is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in educational management from Cavite State University, Philippines, and did a postdoc at the University of Pretoria. He was a visiting scholar at Indiana University, USA, and Aarhus University, Denmark.