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Oscar Koopman; Karen J. Koopman; Wally Lumadi; Samuel Amponsah – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
This book examines post-colonial curriculum transformation across seven African nations. These are South Africa, Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Ghana. It investigates whether these educational systems have truly decolonized their curricula or still remain rooted in Western frameworks despite achieving political independence.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Postcolonialism, Decolonization
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Adejumo, Christopher O. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2022
In this article, I consider the artistic and cultural impacts of Western-style art instruction in Yoruba schools. I discuss the trajectory of Western influence on Yoruba educational institutions, beginning with early Christian missionary activities in Yorubaland through the periods of colonization and postcolonial emendation of Nigeria's national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Cultural Differences, African Culture
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Arugha A. Ogisi – Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 2024
Nigeria's triple music heritage of traditional, Islamic and Western music should have informed her formal music education curriculum. Instead, western music was used by the early Christian missionaries that it became difficult to integrate indigenous music traditions into the curriculum that music could not gain traction as a school subject across…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational History, Barriers, Foreign Countries
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Gumbo, Mishack T.; Nnadi, Fidelis O.; Anamezie, Rose C. – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
There is the need to liberate the school science teaching process to suit the culturally bound day-to-day experiences of learners. The clarion call becomes expedient in the light of pedagogical failure in science education, which precipitates poor science achievement, especially in non-Western cultures. Non-Western knowledge systems, specifically…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Physics, Science Instruction, Western Civilization
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Adedokun, Theophilus – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
This study sets out to explore the current Nigerian Higher Education Institution (HEI) curriculum and its relation to the notion of black consciousness. This study argues that for the curriculum of HEIs in Africa to be relevant to the notion of black consciousness, it should mirror the philosophies of Africa as a continent. The curriculum should…
Descriptors: Blacks, Higher Education, Racial Identification, College Curriculum
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Ajaps, Sandra; Forh Mbah, Marcellus – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This paper considered the changes in education that are needed in response to the rapidly deteriorating state of the Earth's environment. We argued that such changes should be focussed on developing an effective education that equips inhabitants of the Earth to understand their environment towards contributing to its conservation, especially with…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Place Based Education, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment)