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Title:On the teaching of economics in Africa
Author:Kimble, Helen
Year:1969
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:7
Issue:4
Pages:713-741
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:textbooks
economics education
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/159159
Abstract:The past two years, 1968-69, have seen the publication of a significant handful of economic textbooks, designed for first-year university students in Africa. The lack of suitable textbooks has been only one of many constraints on the teaching of economics at university level in Africa. After looking at a few of the more general difficulties faced by academic economists in Africa, the author reviews some of the relevant books available to African universities at various stages of their development, end reports on some recent constructive discussions of teaching problems, with a final closer examination of three new textbooks: Problems of university teaching in Africa - 'Anglo-Saxon' textbooks in Africa - Is economic theory universal? - New directions in Dar es Salaam - An African conference on economic teaching (Dar es Salaam 1969) - Textbooks for the 1970s? Ref.
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