Comparative Education for Africa: Perspective from Students’ Perceptions of and Motivations for Studying Comparative Education

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dc.contributor.authorAnangisye, William A. L.
dc.contributor.authorWolhuter, C. C.
dc.contributor.authorO’Sullivan, M.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-18T10:25:53Z
dc.date.available2016-03-18T10:25:53Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionFull text can be accessed at http://www.ped.ac.tz/index.php/dcm/issue/view/17en_US
dc.description.abstractIn view of the North-American-Western European hegemony in education and contemporary curriculum theory, which prescribes an input by students as clients, the authors from two African countries, South Africa and Tanzania, surveyed their students about what they expected to gain from a Comparative Education course, and contrasted that with the expectations of students of a European country, Ireland. The comparison revealed startling divergences. Whereas the Irish students’ main expectation was that their Comparative Education course would prepare them for a teaching job abroad, the South African students looked to their Comparative Education course to enlighten the domestic education reform project and to improve their teaching strategies, while the Tanzanian students had a purely intellectual view of the subject— wanting Comparative Education to contribute to their intellectual moulding and development. The authors relate these differences to contextual differences between Ireland, South Africa and Tanzania, and conclude that contextual factors should be taken into account, when developing Comparative Education courses for universities in Africa.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAnangisye, W.A., Wolhuter, C.C. and O'Sullivan, M., 2011. Comparative education for Africa: perspective from students' perceptions of and motivations for studying comparative education. Papers in Education and Development, (30), pp.34-52.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0856-4027
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1136
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectStudents’en_US
dc.subjectStudying Motivationsen_US
dc.subjectComparative Educationen_US
dc.titleComparative Education for Africa: Perspective from Students’ Perceptions of and Motivations for Studying Comparative Educationen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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