Re-Visioning Education in Africa

Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako is Executive Director and International Education and Education, Gender and Research Consultant at Oxford ATP.N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is Professor of African, African Diaspora and Comparative/International Education at Cornell University, USA.

• Introduction: Re-visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-inspired education for humanity.- 1. The Humanist African Philosophy of Ubuntu: Anti-colonial historical and educational analyses.- 2. Ubuntu and Pan-Africanism: The Dialectics of Learning about Africa.- 3. On the educational potential of Ubuntu.- 4. Conceptualizing Gender and Education in Africa from an Ubuntu Frame.- 5. Reclaiming the Education that Africa Lost.- 6. Ubuntu as humanistic education: Challenges and Perspectives for Africa?.- 7. Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Sub-Saharan Africa.- 8. Re-visioning Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs): Prospects and Promises within the framework of Ubuntu Paradigm.- 9. Ubuntu as a framework for the adoption and use of e-learning in Ghanaian Public Universities.- 10. Addressing the Challenge of Coloniality in the Promises of Modernityand Cosmopolitanism to Higher Education: De-bordering, De-centering/
De-peripherizing, and De-colonializing.- 11. Towards an Alternative Approach to Education Partnerships in Africa: Ubuntu, the Confluence and the Post-2015 Agenda.- 12. Conclusion: Towards an Ubuntu-Inspired Continental Partnership on Education for Sustainable Development in Africa: African Union Commission Agenda 2063 Education Strategy.