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Title Schooling and difference in Africa : democratic challenges in a contemporary context / George J. Sefa Dei [and others].

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327) and index.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Summary 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Discrimination in education -- Ghana.
Discrimination in education.
Ghana.
Minorities -- Education -- Ghana.
Minorities -- Education.
Educational anthropology -- Ghana.
Educational anthropology.
Education -- Africa.
Education.
Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dei, George J. Sefa (George Jerry Sefa), 1954-
Other Form: Print version: Schooling and difference in Africa. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2007270025 (OCoLC)68815694
ISBN 9781442679610 (electronic book)
1442679611 (electronic book)
1281991716
9781281991713
0802090192 (bound)
0802048943 (paperback)
9780802090195 (bound)
9780802048943 (paperback)