Traditional Values And Local Community In The Formal Educational System In Senegal Relevance Need And Barriers To The Integration Of Local Knowledge Maguette Diame by Maguette Diame 9781032575391, 1032575395 instant download after payment.

This book explores the discourse of traditional values and local practices within the formal educational system in Senegal, investigating how these cultural elements are present in the daily life of the community and integrated into formal schools and teaching. Studying the integration of concepts such as Jom (hard work, pride, and dignity), Kersa (decency), Fule (self-respect), Mun (endurance), Teranga (hospitality), Kal (kinship), and Suture (Protection), it looks at how values are used, perceived, and understood within communities, as well as their positive and negative connotations in the postcolonial context. Based on long-term participant education and utilizing a critical auto-ethnography lens, it ultimately proposes that such concepts can be used to counterbalance the Western knowledge to which schoolchildren are mostly exposed, connecting this to Bhabha’s system of the ‘Third Space’; a hybrid system to accommodate both educational systems for more relevant education. An informed study of the positive impacts of traditional cultural values on education in Senegal, it will appeal to scholars, researchers, and practitioners of education in postcolonial Francophone countries with interests in culturally relevant education, African education, postcolonial education, and international education.