5 February, 16:00-18:00
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Join this event to hear discussions around the recently published book, Reconceptualising the Learning Crisis in Africa.
Sean Higgins and Kwame Akyeampong will introduce and reflect on their recently published book, Reconceptualising the Learning Crisis in Africa.
It interrogates the notion of the “learning crisis” in Africa that currently dominates the global education policy agenda. Challenging deficit narratives of children, communities and their teachers, it re-envisions solutions to educational marginalisation in Africa through case studies of accelerated learning programmes in Ghana, Liberia and Ethiopia.
In contrast, these innovative and transformative modalities of educational provision:
- value children’s knowledges, languages and cultural identity
- ensure sustained and meaningful community engagement with communities experiencing precarity, and above all
- embed holistic Afro-centric pedagogical practices grounded in the relational ethic of Ubuntu.
First, there will be a short presentation of the book’s key themes by Sean and Kwame. These will then be explored further by six discussants:
- Michelle Schweisfurth (University of Glasgow)
- Leon Tikly (University of Bristol)
- Moses Oketch (UCL)
- Elaine Unterhalter (UCL)
- Eliza Ngutuku (UCL), and
- Laila Kadiwal (UCL).
The discussion will then be opened to questions.
This event will be of interest to researchers and scholars of global educational policy, especially around ‘Education for All’, post and decolonial studies, curriculum and pedagogical practices in Africa as well as NGOs and international aid and development agencies.