The Significance of Schooling Life-Journeys in an African Society [Paperback]

This 1933 study explores the difficulties of meeting the multiple agenda of modern schooling in a case study of a rural African community.Schooling in the modern world has a multiple agenda: the promotion of economic progress, the trans-generational transmission of culture, and the cultivation of childrens intellectual and moral development. This 1933 study explores the difficulties of achieving a synthesis of these objectives, in a case study of a rural African community.Schooling in the modern world has a multiple agenda: the promotion of economic progress, the trans-generational transmission of culture, and the cultivation of childrens intellectual and moral development. This 1933 study explores the difficulties of achieving a synthesis of these objectives, in a case study of a rural African community.Schooling in the modern world has a multiple agenda: the promotion of economic progress, the transmission of culture from generation to generation, and the cultivation of children's intellectual and moral development. Originally published in 1993, this book explores the difficulties of achieving a synthesis of these objectives, in a case study of a rural African community. The analysis contrasts the indigenous perspective on child development with the formal educational model of cognitive growth. Teachers in the local primary school are shown to face the challenge of bicultural mediation, and the significance of schooling is discussed for each of the diverse individuals of the study in terms of his or her own reflections and interpretations. Two different attempts to activate a local dialogue about the school as a community resource are described and the implications for approaches to educational planning are explored.List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; 1. The multiple agenda of schooling; 2. Wanzelu ndani? A Chewa perspective on child development and intelligence; 3. The formal educational model of cognitive growth; 4. Bicultural mediation: local challÃI