Community as classroom: Dilemmas of valuing African indigenous literacy in education

International Review of Education

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 305-319

  Semali, Ladislaus ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 257 Chambers Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; EDUCATION; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; LITERACY;

AFRICA;

EID: 0033394349     PISSN: 00208566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4257-1_5     Document Type: Article

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