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Challenging the Research Complex: Education, External Influence, and Disrupting Dependence in Africa

Challenging the Research Complex: Education, External Influence, and Disrupting Dependence in Africa

Samoff, Joel

Hardcover

Series: Critical Global Citizenship Education

General EducationGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032729244
ISBN13: 9781032729244
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 30 2025
Pages: 219
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Starting with an overview of the intersection of local and global dynamics in education in Africa, this book focuses critical attention on education research and the problematic research process.

Education held extraordinary promise at Africa's independence. Rapid expansion in access and imaginative innovations followed, but progress proved difficult to sustain. As frustration displaced optimism, recourse to foreign aid became common. Education in Africa--critical to national development--combines high expectations and enthusiasm with distress and dependence. Local and global agendas intersect. External influence is internalized. Research is consequential, especially in reinforcing the conservative charter of most education systems in Africa, more concerned with reproducing the national political economy than changing it. Notwithstanding disciplinary border crossers, methodological orthodoxy is blinding. Social engineering remains more important than social justice. Scholarship about Africa is only rarely by Africa. Scholars study poverty and miss impoverishment.

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