The Education Alibi

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dc.contributorCooper, Elizabeth
dc.contributorAlber, Erdmute
dc.contributorNjoya, Wandia
dc.date2025-10-22T08:32:30Z
dc.date2025-10-22T08:32:30Z
dc.date2025
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T13:44:19Z
dc.descriptionEducation is generally promoted as the key to the future of Africa in global development discourses about the continent. Education’s official story in Africa continues to be one of innocence and public good, yet, since colonial times, education has constituted an area of intense contestation. The Education Alibi asks if it is possible that while claiming to be doing one thing, education has also been doing another in African communities. The concept of the “alibi” shines an interrogative light on institutions’ and actors’ use of education to divert scrutiny from other effects. Through ethnographic research and critical analysis across the continent, this volume focuses on people’s lived experiences to demonstrate how contemporary education systems in fact deepen economic, racialized, gendered, urban-rural, linguistic, religious, and other intranational and international inequalities.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/19882
dc.identifierdoi10.3998/mpub.14417360
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.pages338
dc.publisherUniversity of Michigan Press
dc.relationAfrican Perspectives
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dc.source9780472905348.pdf
dc.subjecteducation, critical education studies, global education, education for all, Africa, anthropology of education, anthropology of contemporary Africa, international development, inequality, education systems, African education, teaching, learning, literacy, discrimination, school, inequity
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy
dc.titleThe Education Alibi

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