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Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools (Paperback)
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In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on
many social engineering projects, the most meaningful and
fascinating of which has been the state7;s effort to create a
national culture through its schools. As Cati Coe reveals in
"Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools," this effort has created
an unusual paradox: while Ghana encourages its educators to teach
about local cultural traditions, those traditions are transformed
as they are taught in school classrooms. The state version of
culture now taught by educators has become objectified and
nationalized2;vastly different from local traditions.
Coe identifies the state7;s limitations in teaching cultural
knowledge and discusses how Ghanaians negotiate the tensions raised
by the competing visions of modernity that nationalism and
Christianity have created. She reveals how cultural curricula
affect authority relations in local social organizations2;between
teachers and students, between Christians and national elite, and
between children and elders2;and raises several questions about
educational processes, state-society relations, the production of
knowledge, and the making of Ghana7;s citizenry.
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