博客來Learning Spaces in Africa traces the development of school building design in Western and Southern Africa from the mid-19th to the early 21st century. In doing so, Uduku explores the architecture, socio-political, and economic policy factors that have contributed to the state of current school design, and by extension, education in Africa. Her analysis draws attention to the past historic links of schools to development processes in pre-colonial missionary settings to their re-emergence as development hubs in the 21st century.
A key United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to make basic education available to all the world’s children by 2030. This book examines historical school designs in Africa and uses these findings to suggest fundamental changes to basic education, which respond to new technological advances, and demographies in learning, such as the use of tablets and phones and new schooling models for internally displaced refugee communities, as illustrated in the case studies provided.
This book will be beneficial for students, academics and those interested in the history of educational architecture and its effect on social development particularly in African but with relevance to countries elsewhere in the emerging world.
