Educational Reforms and Innovations in Africa.

Overview & Synopsis

Presented are nine brief case studies of some educational reforms and innovations in some African countries. The studies have in common the concern for problems related to mass education in support of development, particularly in the initial phase of lifelong or basic education. The studies include: Middle-Level Practical Education in Senegal (Samba Dione); Reform in Basic Education in Mali (Issa Yena); Mass Education Linked to Development: Tanzanian Experience (P. K. Mitande, R. Z. Mwajombe); The Fundamental Reform of Education in Benin (Jean Pliya); Reform of the Education System in Togo (Koffi Atignon); Innovative Reform in Ethiopia (Ato Bekele Getahun); Introduction of the Written Somali Language (Osman Jama Dahir, Muse Hussein Askar); Distance Teaching and Mass Education, Kenya (Peter E. Kinyanjui); and Exchanges on Basic Education in East Africa: A Network of Sub-regional Cooperation (Alex Tosh). (MSE)