AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION IN A WORLD OF CHANGE

Abstract

Functional education, well expressed on proper and effective Education, as a human enterprise, is very basic with change that is positively and optimistically holistic in challenging the very basic and peculiar vagaries of problems in our contemporary society. Philosophy of education, however, in its expertise attempt at defining the limits and necessa r y b o u n d a r i e s o f t e a c h i n g a n d l e a r ni n g, c r i ti c ally e x a mi n e s t h e u n d e r ly in g principles in the continued process of lea ding one out of ignorance (educe re) and the consequent act of cultivating or leading one into knowledge (educare). African philosophy o f e d u c a t i o n n e v e r t h el e s s, a p tly c o n s c i o u s o f t h e A f r i c a ni t y a s w ell a s t h e philosophicality of African philosophy of education as a discipline, gives credence to s u i t a ble e d u c a t i o n wi t h i n A f r i c a n c o n t e x t u ali z e d w o r ld vi e w, c o n t r i b u ti n g g r e a tly a n d immensely to the global world of change. Using the method of critical appreciation and analysis, the researcher finds out that Africans need a Philosophy of education that is African based and oriented while contributing significantly to development in general. This pa per recommends a practical and functional curricula that are not only ad rem but ever in line with African Weltanschauung so as to contribute to the contemporary world of change as she tries to recover from the long negative and suppressive effects of colo nial education ensuring African Identity.
Keywords: African, Africanity, Philosophy, Philosophicality, Education, Curriculum, world of change