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Inclusive education poses serious challenges in low to middle income countries. This chapter highlights unique African challenges in the provision of quality inclusive education in-school education and training. It further in unambiguous terms argues that if inclusive education is inundated with challenges, the provision of and quality of education in Africa and/or developing countries will severely be compromised. In the same breath, the important role that inclusive education has to play...

The book “Using African epistemologies in shaping inclusive education” is a research book in educational philosophy whose main audience comprises student teachers, academics who teach them, curriculum specialists and comparative educationists. At its heart, the book asserts that ‘inclusivity’ facilitates the establishment and provision of wholesale educational services. This means that when societies are effectively inclusive, educational services provide overarching benefits that satisfy...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of higher education students' lives.The COVID-19 has influenced their cognitive abilities regarding schoolwork, balancing their lives, and maintaining academic success using mindfulness awareness and academic resilience as productive strategies.Therefore, this study examined Ghanaian students' mindfulness and academic resilience amid the pandemic with a descriptive quantitative design survey.Data for the study were collected with adapted...

The COVID-19 pandemic that has engulfed the whole world has given rise to a number of previously disguised challenges to higher educational institutions (HEIs). In the blink of an eye, lecturers had to facilitate learning in remote environments without any prior training. What aroused the interest in this study was the need to know how lecturers at one university dealt with the sudden shift to remote teaching during the pandemic. The way in which lecturers dealt with the shift may reveal...

Plagiarism is a major concern across institutions of learning. We developed and implemented an innovative online course to teach students about plagiarism. This study aimed to ascertain why students plagiarise, and to determine whether the course would impact students’ knowledge and perceptions of plagiarism. This case study used a mixed-methods approach. The “Understanding Plagiarism” course was based on the principles of the Activated Classroom Teaching model that uses 5 digital-age...

The purpose of this study was to establish university students’ foreign language preferences. It was motivated by the observation that, in Zimbabwe learners’ foreign language preferences are not included in the curriculum. This study was guided by the pragmatist philosophy which sought what works in a given context. The research design was a linear combination of document analysis, survey and focus group discussions. Data was collected from a stratified sample of 279 adult learners at a...

Sorghum is a staple food in Mali, yet grain yields are low and do not contain high lysine, threonine, iron and zinc content. Drought is the most significant cause of crop yield loss, especially in water limited areas where most of the world’s poorest farmers live. Development of drought tolerant bio-fortified sorghum hybrids will enhance food production and the livelihood of farmers in these areas. To assess the adaptation, yield potential, and to identify the traits contributing directly...

Public secondary schools in Kenya are expected to implement guidance and counseling policy as directed by the Ministry of Education. However, guidance and counselling policy is not supported by a framework for implementation that takes into account the contextual realities of basic education in Kenya. This study sought to contribute to knowledge by originating and testing a tripartite framework of guidance and counseling for application in secondary schools in Kenya. The main objective of...

African countries are increasingly committed to inclusivity, equity, equality, accessibility and empowerment in compliance with global human rights instruments including the Universal Declaration of Human rights (United Nations 1948), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations 2006) and the Incheon Declaration (UNESCO 2015). Nevertheless, persistent social and educational inequalities reveal uneven implementation of inclusivity and the infringements of the...

Entrenched in international literature drawn from environmental scan, current resources, materials and studies, this chapter presents building a student-centred inclusive education system as an African agenda for real action and real change. This includes the embedment of the education system in diverse theoretical and philosophical paradigms and the process, content, product and environment of the nurturance and sustenance of quality learning for all students in Africa whatever their...

Prior to the inception of western civilization into Africa, indigenous education underpinned the life of its inhabitants. Western culture permeated Africa with the arrival of the British and French Christian missionaries from the fifteenth century and its subsequent colonization. African parents accepted the colonial system of education and enrolled their children into the formal schools that offered western education. These parents progressively sidelined the lifelong, holistic and...

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Abstract South Africa, which offers relative political stability and prosperity, has always been a major destination country for a large flow of people seeking better economic and social opportunities. Many Zimbabweans left to flee from poverty as a result of Zimbabwe’s political and financial crumble around 2008; thus, this paper aimed at shedding light on Zimbabwean immigrant teachers’ experiences of acculturation in independent schools in Johannesburg, South Africa. It also sought to...

During the past three decades, China has acquired a leading role as a provider of scholarship awards and a study-abroad destination for Africans, at a competing threshold with the leading actors such as Japan, India, UK, US and Germany.

Over the past two decades, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in South Africa have been formulating e-learning policies to assist them to realise the full potential of using ICTs in teaching and learning. E-learning policies serve as guiding frameworks that create enabling environments for embedding ICTs in teaching and learning. The development of e-learning policies has attracted various stakeholders and actors with varied interests, views, priorities, influence and power. Consequently,...

This case-study assessed family dysfunctionality and its effect on the psychological well-being of pupils of St. Francis of Assisi Primary School in Kiambu County, Kenya. The research objectives of this study were: to examine the prevalence of family dysfunctionality among pupils, to evaluate the level of psychological well-being among pupils, to assess the relationship between family dysfunctionality and psychological well-being among the pupils. This study was grounded on Adlerian Theory,...

The post covid-19 studies have reported significant negative impact witnessed on global education and learning with the closure of schools’ physical infrastructure from 2020 to 2022. Its effects today continues to ripple across the learning processes even with advances in e-learning or media literacy. The adoption and integration therein of e-learning on the Nigerian frontier is yet to be fully harnessed. From traditional to blended learning, and to virtual learning – Nigeria must rise, and...

The effectiveness of school systems and learners’ academic performance in Kenya relies heavily on head teachers’ instructional leadership practices and teachers’ work performance, raising the need for suitable instructional leadership practices to achieve the desired quality of education outlined in Vision 2030 and the fourth Sustainable Development Goal. However, recent reports highlight concerns about teachers’ work performance, especially regarding their classroom pedagogical knowledge,...