The Lacuna in African Education Systems: Why the Systems are not Achieving the Needs for 21st Century Learned Citizens

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dc.contributor.authorAnney, Vicent Naano
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-02T12:55:19Z
dc.date.available2016-02-02T12:55:19Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-30
dc.descriptionto access full paper in the following link: http://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/DCS/article/view/26901/28104en_US
dc.description.abstractThis is a library–based research paper that explored problems facing African education systems in the 21st century and how to address these challenges. It is almost six decade since first African country received its independence from colonial masters but African education systems are still ineffective and pupils are not in schools and those in schools some are graduating without basic literacy skills of writing, reading and doing simple numeracy. The findings indicated that African education systems has a lot structural problems such as policy issues, management problems, poor curriculum, lack of funding and ‘political will’ to improve education system. This study provide some suggestions on how to reform African education systems so as foster the skills development for the 21 century citizens.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAnney, V. N. (2015). The Lacuna in African Education Systems: Why the Systems are not Achieving the Needs for 21st Century Learned Citizens. Developing Country Studies, 5(20), 50-55.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2225-0565
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/257
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Knowledge Sharing Platform.en_US
dc.subjectEducation systemen_US
dc.subjectreformsen_US
dc.subject21st century educationen_US
dc.titleThe Lacuna in African Education Systems: Why the Systems are not Achieving the Needs for 21st Century Learned Citizensen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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