Education in East and Central Africa, by Charl Wolhuter
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic [Kindle Edition]
Education in East and Central Africa is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The book critically examines the regional development of education provision in each country as well as recent reforms and global contexts. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole and guides to available online datasets, this handbook will be an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.
Charl C. Wolhuter is co-editor (with Alexander W. Wiseman) of
The Development of Higher Education in Africa: Prospects and Challenges (2013)
and (with K.G. Karras) of the two-volume
International Handbook on Teachers Education Worldwide (2010). He also edited
South Africa in Focus: Economic, Political and Social Issues (2013).
Wolhuter teaches in the School of Education of North-West University, South Africa.
