Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa: 14 (Routledge African Studies)

ISBN 10: 0415703360 / ISBN 13: 9780415703369

Published by Routledge, 2013

About this Item

Editor(s): Shizha, Edward; Abdi, Ali A. Series: Routledge African Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1H; GTF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453. . 2013. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa: 14 (Routledge African Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415703360
• ISBN 13: 9780415703369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in Africa. The authors and contributors to the volume present bold and timely ideas and scholarship for defining Africa through its challenges, possible policy formations, planning and implementation at the local, regional, and national levels. The book also reveals insightful examinations of the hype, the myths and the realities of many topics of concern with respect to dominant development discourses, and challenges the misconceptions and misrepresentations of indigenous perspectives on knowledge productions and overall social well-being or lack thereof. The volume brings together researchers who are concerned with comparative education, international development, and African development, research and practice in particular. Policy makers, institutional planners, education specialists, governmental and non-governmental managers and the wider public should all benefit from the contents and analyses of this book.

About the Author

Edward Shizha is Associate Professor in Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford) in Canada.

Ali A. Abdi is Professor and Co-director, Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER) in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta.