Education Alibi

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Education Alibi

Tracing Education's Entanglements Across Contemporary Africa

Cooper, Elizabeth; Alber, Erdmute; Njoya, Wandia

The University of Michigan Press

10/2025

338

Mole

Inglês

9780472057757

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Education Alibi in Africa: Tracing Processes of Responsibilization, Depoliticization, and the Production of Inequality
Elizabeth Cooper, Erdmute Alber, and Wandia Njoya

Part I. Responsibilization
Chapter 2: Responsibilizing Parents to Overcome Blindness: Changing Intergenerational Relations Through Education for All in Northern Benin
Erdmute Alber
Chapter 3: Symbolic Investment, Actual Indebtedness: The Competing Logics of the School Sector in the Contemporary DRC (Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga)
Edoardo Quaretta
Chapter 4: "The Teachers Just Consume Our Money": Casting Blame for Educational Failure in Rural Lesotho
Claire Elisabeth Dungey and Nicola Ansell
Chapter 5: Changing the Narrative on School Arson in Kenya: Beyond Pathologizing and Criminalizing Approaches
Hildah Oburu

Part II. Depoliticization
Chapter 6: Education Without Critical Consciousness: An Autoethnography
Wandia Njoya
Chapter 7: Educational Reform in Times of Crisis: The Dual Missions of Corporatized Education in Liberia
Tyler Hook
Chapter 8: "Preserving Girls' Futures": Girlhood, Schooling, and Development in Niger
Adeline Masquelier
Chapter 9: Exam Securitization as Alibi: Education and the Distrustful Paradigm of Governance in Kenya
Elizabeth Cooper

Part III. Production of Inequality
Chapter 10: The Paradox of South African Schooling: An Analysis of Multiple Exploitations of the Education Alibi
Suriamurthee Moonsamy Maistry
Chapter 11: The Immorality of Pregnancy and Truancy as Alibi: Uncovering Systemic Discrimination in Access to Basic Education in Tanzania
Aikande Kwayu
Chapter 12: Education Between Desire and Rejection: The Perspectives of Young Illiteracized Peoples on Schooling in Benin
Issifou Abou Moumouni
Chapter 13: Privilege of Prayer: Moral Becoming as Class Formation in Postcolonial Tanzania
Hansjoerg Dilger

List of Contributors
Index
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education; critical education studies; global education; education for all; Africa; anthropology of education; anthropology of contemporary Africa; international development; inequality; education systems; African education; teaching; learning; literacy; discrimination; school; inequity