Indigenizing civic education in Africa: Experience in Madagascar and the Sahel |
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Authors: | Carrie Antal Peter Easton |
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Institution: | aCollege of Education, Florida State University, 114 Stone Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States |
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Abstract: | In Africa, as in many countries of the South, democratization is sometimes perceived as a process modeled upon outside – and specifically Northern – experience. Formal civic education programs in those countries arguably reflect the same bias and have not always been notably successful. Yet there are rich patterns of civic involvement and democratic process in African culture and in the myriad ways in which it has adapted to development challenges, often more successfully reflected in non-formal and informal education endeavors. This article reports on a comparative study of related experience in Madagascar and Sahelian West Africa and draws conclusions regarding ways to draw inspiration for school-based civic education from such ground-level sources. |
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Keywords: | Civic education Democratization Africa Indigenous knowledge Civil society |
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