Traditional Values and Local Community in the Formal Educational System in Senegal: Relevance, Need, and...

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Maguette Diame (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

Traditional Values and Local Community in the Formal Educational System in Senegal

Relevance, Need, and Barriers to the Integration of Local Knowledge

Maguette Diame (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

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Routledge
06 May 2025

Regional studies; Colonialism & imperialism; Sociology; Moral & social purpose of education; Multicultural education

Series: Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education

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.

By: Maguette Diame (University of Massachusetts Amherst USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781032579696
ISBN 10: 1032579692
Series: Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 06 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.