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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, 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 Bhaba'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 post-colonial Francophone countries with interests in culturally relevant education, African education, post-colonial education, and international education.
List of contents
1. INTRODUCTION. 2. REVIEWING THE LITERATURE AND FRAMING THE CONCEPTS . 3. METHODOLOGY. 4. THE CASE. 5. TRADITIONAL VALUES AND MORAL PRINCIPLES: DEFINITION OF CONCEPTS, PERCEPTION BY PARTICIPANTS, AND PLACE IN DAILY LIFE. 6. DISCOURSE REGARDING TRADITIONAL VALUES IN SENEGAL. 7. VALUES AND/OR MORAL PRINCIPLES IN SCHOOL: PRESENCE, USE, AND REFERENCE. 8. IMPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES. 9. LOCAL COMMUNITY. 10. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
About the author
Maguette Diame is a Teaching Assistant in the Department of French and Francophone Studies, Languages, Literatures, and Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, where he also obtained his PhD in Education.
Summary
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.
