Remembering West African Indigenous Knowledges and Practices in Citizenship Education Research

Autor/in	Quaynor, Laura
Titel	Remembering West African Indigenous Knowledges and Practices in Citizenship Education Research
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 48 (2018) 3, S.362-378 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
DOI	10.1080/03057925.2018.1444468
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Democratic Values; Citizenship Education; Indigenous Knowledge; Educational Research; Culturally Relevant Education; History; Political Issues; Justice; Student Surveys; Secondary Schools; Interviews; Teacher Attitudes; Administrator Attitudes; Focus Groups; Statistical Analysis; Gender Differences; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Africa; Liberia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Politischer Faktor; Gerechtigkeit; Schülerbefragung; Sekundarschule; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lehrerverhalten; Statistische Analyse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Afrika
Abstract	Democratic citizenship education is of key concern in many societies, particularly with the adoption of global citizenship education in the United Nations' Education First Initiative. There have been particular critiques that current frameworks for understanding citizenship fail to account for civic understandings and practices in both African and African Diasporic societies. In this paper I share examples of indigenous civic knowledges and practices from societies within West Africa, the main nexus of the African diaspora. To illustrate the rich contexts societies have related to rights and political participation, I examine Adinkra symbols from the Akan in Ghana, and the Mande Charter of 1222, from what is now Mali. I then illustrate including indigenous knowledges in empirical research via a study of citizenship education in Liberia that included questions about traditional justice in a survey instrument, demonstrating varying access to traditional justice systems by gender. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01