AFST-356 : Education and Social Change in Africa

This course studies the theories of education and their implications of development of relevant and effective education programs with goals and mission targeting the needs of a society at particular times; links this study with the constraints and opportunities of African pre-colonial education experiences; cases studies of specific African educational systems to identify their empirical strengths and weakness seen against guiding education theories and philosophies; develops concrete propositions that can help fix identified African educational deficits.