Reconceptualising the Learning Crisis in Africa: Multi-dimensional Pedagogies of Accelerated Learning Programmes

This book offers a powerful, post‑colonial rejection of the so‑called global ‘learning crisis’ that offers deficit models of the experiences, knowledges, identities and relationships of African children, eroding their agency and dignity and undermining their learning opportunities and potential.

Three case studies of three accelerated learning programmes (ALPs) for out‑of‑school and lower-achieving children in Ethiopia, Liberia and Ghana illustrate multi‑dimensional models that re‑envision t...