An African perspective on development : learning to live and living to learn in the 21st century /

In this book, the distinguished South African academic Akpovire Oduaran examines the challenges presented by the changing landscape of socio-economic transformations and strategic learning in the twenty-first century, especially in the context of Anglophone Africa. UNESCO has indicated that as at Se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Oduaran, Akpovire (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Academica Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Education > Africa, Sub-Saharan. Education > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan. Education > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Psychological aspects. Learning, Psychology of. Africa, Sub-Saharan > Social conditions.

Table of Contents:

Section A: The contexts
The 21st century Sub-Saharan Africa learning context
Why learning to live, living to learn and learning to learn?
Section B: Human development
Lifespan development
Personality development
The human brain and plasticity
Section C: The meaning, theories and types of learning
The meaning and theories of learning
Types of learning
Section D: Some impediments to learning and their mitigations
Selected learning problems
Trauma and its impacts on learning
Section E: Experiential learning and intelligences
Experiential learning
Emotional intelligence
Social intelligence
Section F: best principles and practices of facilitating learning
Learning and counselling
Individualising and structuring learning
Critical reflection and the reflective practitioner
Creating the conducive learning environment
The mnemonics & research on and applications of multimodal learning.