Charl Wolhuter - Education in East and Central Africa

Education in East and Central Africa

Available and forthcoming in the Education Around the World series

Education Around the World: A Comparative Introduction, Colin Brock and Nafsika Alexiadou

Education in East Asia, edited by Pei-tseng Jenny Hsieh

Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited by Nadiya Ivanenko

Education in Southern Africa, edited by Clive Harber

Education in South-East Asia, edited by Lorraine Pe Symaco

Education in West Central Asia, edited by Mah-E-Rukh Ahmed

Education in North America, edited by D. E Mulcahy, D. G. Mulcahy and Roger Saul

Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles, edited by Emel Thomas

Forthcoming titles:

Education in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, edited by Michael Crossley, Greg Hancock and Terra Sprague

Education in the European Union: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Trevor Corner

Education in the United Kingdom, edited by Colin Brock

Education in West Africa, edited by Emefa Takyi-Amoako

Education in East and Central Africa

Edited by Charl Wolhuter

Education Around the World

Bloomsbury Academic

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First published 2014

Charl Wolhuter and Contributors, 2014

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ISBN: ePub: 978-1-4725-1022-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Education in East and Central Africa / edited by Charl Wolhuter.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-4725-0541-5 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4725-1022-8 (epub) -- ISBN 978-1-4725-0815-7 (epdf) 1. Education--Africa, East. 2. Education--Africa, Central. I. Wolhuter, C. C. (Charl C.)

LA1501.E3655 2014

370.9676--dc23

2013044910

Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN

Contents

This series will comprise nineteen volumes, between them looking at education in virtually every territory in the world. The initial volume, Education Around the World: A Comparative Introduction, aims to provide an insight to the field of international and comparative education. It looks at its history and development and then examines a number of major themes at scales from local to regional to global. It is important to bear such scales of observation in mind because the remainder of the series is inevitably regionally and nationally based.

The identification of the regions within which to group countries has sometimes been a very simple task, elsewhere less so. Europe, for example has four volumes, and most of a fifth, and more than fifty countries. National statistics vary considerably in their availability and accuracy, and in any case date rapidly. Consequently the editors of each volume point the reader towards access to regional and international datasets, available online, that are regularly updated. A key purpose of the series is to give some visibility to a large number of countries that, for various reasons rarely, if ever, have coverage in the literature of this field.

For this volume, Education in East and Central Africa, it has been a very difficult task to delimit the region. Some of the boundaries decided between it and neighbouring regions, West Africa and Southern Africa, are necessarily arbitrary. It also borders on another region that is culturally based, the Arab world, yet like West Africa it contains many Islamic communities. Another problem faced in gaining chapters for this region is the linguistic variety within it. Indeed the editor Professor Charl Wolhuter has had to undertake a great deal of translating himself. So I am especially grateful to him for sustaining the effort and coming up with a most valuable component of this worldwide series.

Colin Brock

Series Editor

William A. L. Anangisye is Associate Professor in Education in the School of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He teaches courses in teacher education courses. He is widely published, including Reflecting on Comparative Education Teaching in Tanzania: The Case of the University of Dar es Salaam, in C. Wolhuter, N. Popov, B. Leutwyler and K. S. Ermenc (eds), Comparative Education at Universities World Wide, 3rd edition, Sofia: Bulgarian Comparative Education Society and Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts, 2013. He also has over 20 articles published in scholarly journals.

Rachel Nsimire Bigawa studied at the National Pedagogical Institute of Kinshasa (IPN-Kinshasa), DRC where she obtained a BA degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in 1978. She then studied at Aston University in Birmingham, England where she took a Masters degree in Teaching English for Specific Purposes and graduated in 1987. From then she has taught English to university students both in DRC and in Burundi where she currently lives and works as a Linguistics and English Studies Lecturer at the Ecole Normale Suprieure, ENS. Her main academic interests include Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Teacher Education.

Michael Brophy has a Ph.D. in evaluation of distance teaching and a Masters in science education from Keele University, also a postgraduate Diploma of Advanced Studies in Education from the University of Ulster. He has worked with DFID, the British Council and UNESCO as an education advisor to ministries of education in Africa, South America, the Middle East and Asia. From 1993 to 2012 he was Executive Director of the Africa Educational Trust where his work focused on supporting educational development in Africa, especially in fragile states. He has written extensively on education in conflict situations. In 2006 he was awarded the OBE for services to education in developing countries.

Joseph Chita studied at the University of Zambia, the University of Oslo and the Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. He works for the University of Zambia as a Lecturer in the School of Education. His research interests are in Comparative Education, Indigenous Knowledge and Culture (Religion), Gender and Development.

Andre Jacinto Diasala studied at the University of Leipzig, Germany and obtained a Licentiate in Mathematics and Physics Education for Secondary School. He specializes in the Analysis of Education Systems and Curriculum Planning for the International Institute of Educational Planning (IIEP) of UNESCO in Paris. He was a Physics teacher at a secondary school in Luanda. Since 2000 he has worked at the National Institute for Educational Development (INIDE) of Luanda. He is the author of several textbooks and teacher guides for Physics education.