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Title: | Schooling in the States of Equatorial Africa |
Author: | Gardinier, David E. |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 517-538 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | educational policy Education and Oral Traditions |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/483710 |
Abstract: | Since self-government in 1957, the leaders of the Equatorial African countries have faced strong popular pressures to expand educational opportunities. By the time of independence in 1960, they recognized that the educational system of the colonial era ill suited the needs of new nations seeking to promote development and unity. Yet under the circumstances they had no option but to extend the existing system while at the same time trying to adapt or reform it. This review of education in the four states - Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, the Central African Republic, Chad - focuses upon the major aspects of the growth of the educational system inherited from the French colonial period and the attempts to reform the system: Introduction - The colonial background - French aid after independence - Educational expansion and teachers' qualification - Problems of overcrowding, attrition, and repeating - The education of women - Changing role of church-related education - Adaptation and reform - Conclusion. Ref., tables, French summary. |