Overview
- Covers current trends in education systems of Africa
- Examines education policies from different African countries
- Highlights capacities to address issues of social justice and achieve sustainable development
Part of the book series: Global Education Systems (GES)
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Table of contents (52 entries)
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Front Matter
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Current Trends, Issues, and Development
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Education Systems of Africa
- Education Policy
- social justice in education
- sustainable development
- quality of life in Africa
- training policies
- educational access
- public expenditure on education
- teacher-student ratio
- compulsory education
- gender ratio for school enrollment
- tertiary education gross enrollment ratio
- agencies of government
- gender discrimination
- learning and instruction
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Education Systems of Africa
Editors: Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo
Series Title: Global Education Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44217-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Education
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44216-3Published: 23 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44217-0Published: 22 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2570-2262
Series E-ISSN: 2570-2270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 984
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies