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- Owners of Learning: The Nyae Nyae Village Schools over Twenty-Five Years
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Basler Afrika Bibliographien
summary
This book describes the Nyae Nyae Village Schools, an innovative and unique mother-tongue education initiative set in north-eastern Namibia. Inspired by the optimism of Independence, the project was designed in close consultation with the Ju|�hoansi community in the early 1990s. Drawing upon their traditional knowledge transmission strategies, and initiated in a supportive political environment, the project exemplified �best practice.� During the following two decades, the Village Schools have transitioned from a donor-supported �project� to government schools, and have received much attention and support from donors, civil society organisations, researchers, and others.�However, the students still do not seem to succeed in the mainstream schools. Why is this? Based on long-term field-work in the region, including interviews with Nyae Nyae residents over several years and work with involved organisations, the book addresses this question. Contextualising the Village Schools within post-Independence Namibia, southern African history and the global indigenous rights movement, it examines the enormous paradoxes that schooling presents for the Nyae Nyae community. �Owners of Learning� is the English translation of the Ju|�hoansi word for �teacher� and it serves to highlight a fundamental question � to whom does education belong?
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. xi-xiii
- Note on terminology and orthography
- pp. xiv-xv
- Introduction
- pp. xvi-xviii
- 2. The Nyae Nyae Ju|’hoansi
- pp. 22-47
- 7. Nharokxao: The teachers
- pp. 139-163
- 10. Community consultation and participation
- pp. 198-221
- Conclusion: Owners of learning
- pp. 222-235
- List of abbreviations
- p. 240
- Bibliography
- pp. 241-255
Additional Information
ISBN
9783905758825
Related ISBN(s)
9783905758603
MARC Record
OCLC
951076171
Pages
282
Launched on MUSE
2016-06-10
Language
English
Open Access
No