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- Focuses on issues of access, equity and equality in relation to the education systems of Africa
- Covers broadly global issues such as social justice, inclusion and exclusion, gender discrimination, governance and leadership in the dimension of African education system
- Reviews policies on education to translate the increasing strengths of Africa into achieving sustainable development
Part of the book series: Global Education Systems (GES)
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This research handbook provides meaningful coverage on current trends in the dynamic education systems of Africa. It presents the main findings on current issues in the education systems from different African countries. Specifically, it examines education policies and what can be done differently by African nations to strengthen these policies. The objective is to highlight African nations’ capacity to address issues of social justice to generate ideas that can help translate the increasing strengths of the continent into achieving sustainable development.
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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
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr KS Adeyemo is senior Lecturer in the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Educational Management from the Cavite State University, Philippines, and did his postdoc at the University of Pretoria. He is a researcher of higher education with a particular focus on issues of quality assurance in higher education regionalisation in the Global South. His main area of research focuses on system dynamics of higher education with a particular interest in quality assurance. These two strands enable him to contribute to the field of higher education and issue of employment or skill gaps over the last 10 years. His most recent research project is aimed at attempting the complex systems of higher education using quantitative research designs to frame and discuss complex issues of quality in higher education and unemployment. His research focuses on what can be done to fully understand the role of higher education, and how lack of understanding may persist in creating communication barriers between private and public sectors and the unemployed. His research has been published in high impact international journals, books and in books chapters. He is also an Assistant Editor for Journal of International Students.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Education Systems of Africa
Editors: Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo
Series Title: Global Education Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43042-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Education, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Education
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43042-9Due: 28 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2570-2262
Series E-ISSN: 2570-2270
Number of Pages: 513
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies