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Inclusive Education in African Contexts

A Critical Reader

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Editors:
  1. Nareadi Phasha

    1. University of South Africa, South Africa

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  2. Dikeledi Mahlo

    1. University of South Africa, South Africa

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  3. George J. Sefa Dei

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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  • This work is one of the few books addressing the question of inclusive education from a critical perspective on social difference, power and schooling in the African context.
  • It is written most by African scholars based on the continent informed by local knowledge, everyday experiences and embracing African-centred perspectives on educational practices as well as the successes, achievements, challenges and limitations of inclusive education in Africa.
  • The book brings a practical orientation to the discussion that classroom practitioners and policy officials may find useful.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Inclusive Schooling and Education in African Contexts

    • Nareadi Phasha, Dikeledi Mahlo, George J. Sefa Dei
    Pages 1-17

  3. Epistemologies of Inclusive Education and Critical Reflexivity for Pedagogic Practices in Primary Years (4–11)

    • Therese Mungah Shalo Tchombe
    Pages 19-36

  4. Creating Rights-Based and Inclusive Schools in South Africa

    • Mahlapahlapana J. Themane
    Pages 37-47

  5. Disability and Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe

    • Jabulani Mpofu, Serefete Molosiwa
    Pages 49-63

  6. Practices and Opportunities of Inclusive Education in Botswana

    • Serefete M. Molosiwa, Jabulani Mpofu
    Pages 65-84

  7. Inclusive Education

    • Elizabeth Walton
    Pages 85-100

  8. Rethinking Inclusive Education in an African Context

    • Dikeledi Mahlo
    Pages 101-113

  9. Language as an Excluding Factor in the South African School System

    • Anna J. Hugo
    Pages 115-128

  10. Concealed Market and the Commercialization of Education and its Implication for Inclusivity

    • Isaac Nortey Darko
    Pages 129-137

  11. New Possibilities for School Curriculum

    • Dionisio Nyaga
    Pages 139-149

  12. A Ghanaian Teacher Evaluates access and Equity to Education in Canada and Ghana – John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education and the Education for all Initiative

    • Harriet Akanmori
    Pages 151-171

  13. Transforming Indigenous Curriculum in the Philippines through Indigenous Women’s Knowledge and Practices

    • Rose Ann Torres
    Pages 173-189

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 191-193
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About this book

How do we articulate the possibilities, limitations and challenges of inclusive schooling and education in African contexts? This book insists that inclusive education cannot be taken for granted. Inclusion is neither a natural nor a given educational practice. It must be struggled for. Bringing a critical perspective to inclusive schooling and education is imperative. This book adds to current educational debates with an African lens. It engages inclusive education from multiple lenses of curriculum content, classroom pedagogy and instruction, representation, culture, environment and the socio-organization life of schools, the pursuit of equity and social justice and the search for educational relevance. It is opined that Africa cannot be left behind in rethinking educational inclusion in ways that evoke critical questions of power, equity and social difference. The question of leaner’s identity in terms of class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, language, ethnicity and race are equally consequential for African schooling and education. When inclusion is understood as wholeness of education, then how schooling and education engage the complete learner – her/his body, mind, soul and spirit, as well as the use of local community and Indigenous knowledges in teaching and learning become relevant. Inclusion stands the risk of liberal educational agendas that simply tinker or toy with schooling and education and hardly embrace the challenge of educational change. What we need is a fundamental structural change that ensures schooling and education embraces difference while grappling with the teaching of Indigeneity, decolonization and resistance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of South Africa, South Africa

    Nareadi Phasha, Dikeledi Mahlo

  • University of Toronto, Canada

    George J. Sefa Dei

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Inclusive Education in African Contexts

  • Book Subtitle: A Critical Reader

  • Editors: Nareadi Phasha, Dikeledi Mahlo, George J. Sefa Dei

  • Series Title: Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-803-7

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-803-7Published: 13 April 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CXCIV, 8

  • Topics: Education, general

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