Learning Spaces in Africa Critical Histories to 21st Century Challenges and Change

• Main Author: Uduku, Ola 1963- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2018
• Subjects: School buildings > Design and construction > History. > Africa; Education > Aims and objectives > Africa; Basic education > Africa
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• Physical Description: xv, 160 pages 25 cm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781409433033

With a key UN Sustainable Development Goal for 2030 being to make basic education available to all the world's children, Learning Spaces in Africa explores the architectural, socio-political and economic policy factors that have contributed to school design, the main spaces for education and learning in Africa. It traces the development of school building design, focusing on Western and Southern Africa, from its emergence in the 19th century to the present day. Uduku's analysis draws attention to the past historic links of schools to development processes, from their early 19th century missionary origins to their re-emergence as development hubs in the 21st century. Learning Spaces in Africa uses this research as a basis to suggest fundamental changes to basic education, which respond to new technological advances, and constituencies in learning. Illustrated case studies describe the use of tablets in refugee community schools, "hole-in-the wall" learning and shared school-community learning spaces. This book will be beneficial for students, academics and those interested in the history of educational architecture and its effect on social development, particularly in Africa and with relevance to countries elsewhere in the emerging world.