Issues in African Education: Sociological Perspectives

by Ailie Cleghorn

Book Overview

This book addresses major sociological issues in sub-Saharan African education today. Its fourteen contributors present a thoroughly African world-view within a sociology of education theoretical framework, allowing the reader to see where that theory is relevant to the African context and where it is not. Several of the chapters bring a much-needed cultural nuance and critical theoretical perspective to the issues at hand. The sixteen chapters thus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134953238X
• ISBN13: 9781349532384
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"