Since the 1950s when most African countries gained political independence, schooling has presented very difficult challenges. In the discussion of these challenges, however, the issue of diversity has received relatively little attention. Schooling and Difference in Africa aims to understand how differences such as ethnicity, class, gender, language, religion, and disability play out in African schools systems, and more specifically in Ghana.
Together, George J. Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Sharon Eblaghie Bahador, and Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan promote 'educational inclusion' in the context of African schooling. The aspects of diversity explored in this study include: minority / majority relations, race, ethnicity, gender, language, class, religion, and physical (dis)ability. The authors build their analyses of these issues around a series of interviews, which project a perspective that policy makers and administrators rarely seek out. By studying the challenges of inclusive education in Ghana and, further, by making comparisons with the Canadian context, this volume seeks to shed light on the ongoing struggle for an empowering school system in Africa and elsewhere.
Authors
Alireza Asgharzadeh, George J. Sefa Dei, Sharon Eblaghie Bahador
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-327) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 306.43/09667
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- fw-----
- ISBN
- 0802090192 9781442679610
- LCCN
- LC191.8.G4
- LCCN Item number
- S36 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xviii, 333 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00601073 (OCoLC)288146881 (CaOOCEL)418878
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Acknowledgments 18
- 1 Threads of Inclusive Schooling 22
- 2 Understanding Difference: Method and Practice 59
- 3 Acknowledging Difference, Responding to Diversity 87
- 4 Majority and Minority Relations: A Question of Power 114
- 5 Complicating Schooling: The Question of Ethnicity 140
- 6 Gendered Subjects: Extending Beyond a Critique of Culture 168
- 7 The Economics of Schooling: Class and Poverty 201
- 8 Resisting Normalcy: Disability and Inclusive Schooling 227
- 9 Language as a Site of Exclusion 245
- 10 Evoking the Sacred: Religion and Spirituality in Schools 272
- 11 Concluding with a Comparative Lens: Lessons and Possibilities 306
- References 328
- Index 348
- A 348
- B 348
- C 348
- D 349
- E 349
- F 349
- G 349
- H 350
- I 350
- J 350
- K 350
- L 350
- M 350
- N 351
- O 351
- P 351
- R 351
- S 351
- T 351
- U 352
- W 352
- Z 352
