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Schooling and Difference in Africa: Democratic Challenges in a Contemporary Context


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Since the 1950s when most African countries gained political independence, schooling has presented very difficult challenges. In the discussion of these challenges, however, the issue of diversity has received relatively little attention. Schooling and Difference in Africa aims to understand how differences such as ethnicity, class, gender, language, religion, and disability play out in African schools systems, and more specifically in Ghana.

Together, George J. Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Sharon Eblaghie Bahador, and Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan promote 'educational inclusion' in the context of African schooling. The aspects of diversity explored in this study include: minority / majority relations, race, ethnicity, gender, language, class, religion, and physical (dis)ability. The authors build their analyses of these issues around a series of interviews, which project a perspective that policy makers and administrators rarely seek out. By studying the challenges of inclusive education in Ghana and, further, by making comparisons with the Canadian context, this volume seeks to shed light on the ongoing struggle for an empowering school system in Africa and elsewhere.



Table of Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

  1. Threads of Inclusive Schooling
  2. Understanding Difference: Method and Practice
  3. Acknowledging Difference, Responding to Diversity
  4. Majority and Minority Relations: A Question of Power
  5. Complicating Schooling: The Question of Ethnicity
  6. Gendered Subjects: Extending Beyond a Critique of Culture
  7. The Economics of Schooling: Class and Poverty
  8. Resisting Normalcy: Disability and Inclusive Schooling
  9. Language as a Site of Exclusion
  10. Evoking the Sacred: Religion and Spirituality in Schools
  11. Concluding with a Comparative Lens: Lessons and Possibilities

References

Index



About the Author :
Alireza Asgharzadeh is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. George J. Sefa Dei is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, University of Toronto. Sharon Eblaghie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780802090195
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 660 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0802090192
  • Publisher Date: 04 Nov 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Democratic Challenges in a Contemporary Context
  • Width: 158 mm


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