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Here I will try to collect (and annotate) websites
that I can use in writing an article about Education in Africa.
The article is being written at the request of the Africa 20:20
Association in Iceland
who are preparing a book on Africa..
I will be using
Activity Theory to organise my information.
For more about activity theory see
the home page of the
Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research.
Using activity theory should help
me to look for
inconsistencies or contradictions in the informatiion.
I will look at the
context within which education in Africa
occurs and
I will look at the outcomes which are
expected of education in the 21st century.
I will also look at the
actors involved in education,
the teachers/facilitators and the pupils/learners.
I will also try to look at the communities
within which they operate and
the objects of the educational tasks being
carried out.
Educational activities are mediated
by the tools available to facilitators and
learners,
by the rules which guide educational
activity (such as curriculum) and the
division of labour or roles which the actors
must assume within their educational systems..
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