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Bridging between Orthodox Western Higher Educational Practices and an African Sociocultural Context
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Serpell, Robert – Comparative Education, 2007
The cultural validity of a psychological or educational theory is a function of its sensitizing and heuristic power for a given task addressed by a given community. African universities have inherited from the West a number of institutionalized arrangements for learning that tend to decontextualize the learning process by extracting learners from…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Western Civilization, Sociocultural Patterns