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dc.contributor.authorMaruatona, T.
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-04T14:07:43Z
dc.date.available2011-03-04T14:07:43Z
dc.date.issued2006-11
dc.identifier.citationMaruatona, T. (2006) Lifelong learning for facilitating democratic participation in Africa, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 547-560en_US
dc.identifier.issn0260-1370
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10311/727
dc.description.abstractLifelong learning has come to be internationally recognized as a framework in the development of sustainable education. However, in spite of rhetoric and its endorsement in some nations' policy documents, lifelong learning is not operationalized and Africa continues to be plagued by social maladies such as HIV/AIDS, capacity poverty, low quality education, global marginalization and ineffective governance. The article argues that post-colonial Africa transited from concern with service delivery, went through structural adjustment policies to focusing on African renaissance. It indicates that some countries have embraced lifelong learning as policy framework but have not made sufficient efforts to translate that in their teaching and learning. It contents that lifelong learning in Africa can only be effective if African communities are encouraged to make concerted efforts to embrace principles such as deliberative democracy, multiculturalism, decentralization of decision-making and helping to redirect the agenda of civil society as a way to use lifelong learning to enhance public participation in Africa.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge http://www.informaworld.comen_US
dc.subjectLifelong learningen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectCivil societyen_US
dc.titleLifelong learning for facilitating democratic participation in Africaen_US
dc.typePublished Articleen_US


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