Teacher Education Systems in Africa in the Digital Era

Authors

Bade Adegoke (ed)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.62

Keywords:

Education, Digital Era, technological manpower, ICT, Nigeria

Synopsis

Teacher education is vital for the realization of a nation’s development aspirations. The conception, incubation and delivery of any national development policy, as well as the reform and implementation of extant policies, are driven by the quality of teachers and their products within a functional educational system. Indeed, national and global models of development, including the millennium development goals revolve round the frames of quality education, beginning with teacher education. It is therefore important to have functional teacher education systems in Africa to help its citizens explore the networking of the world as a global village. This is achievable through a systematic mobilization of national resources and visible commitment to the development of a modernized cadre of scientific and technological manpower. This book, Teacher Education Systems in Africa in the Digital Era is a rich exposition of theories and praxes essential for the development of teacher education in Africa. The book has immense benefits for teachers, teacher trainers, funding agencies, other stakeholders and policy makers.

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Author Biographies

Bade Adegoke

 a Professor of Curriculum Theory and Development, is a former Provost of Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun, Nigeria, former Dean of Education, University of Lagos, and former Director of Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos. He is currently Nigeria’s National Coordinator for the Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA). He provides consultancy services in curriculum development, staff training, program monitoring and evaluation, as well as teacher education.

 

Adesoji Oni

 a Fulbright scholar, is a Senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He specializes in Sociology of Education. His research focus includes Teacher Education, Social Problems in Education, Social Change in Education, and Social Deviances/Social Disorganizations in Education. He has published widely in
these areas.

Pai Obanya

is an international education strategist and was a Professor of
Education at the University of Ibadan until July 1986. He has served as programme
coordinator for education with World Confederation of Organizations of
Teaching Profession (WCOTP) as well as the Director of UNESCO’s Bureau
for Education in Africa (BREDA). Between 2000 and 2001, he was the pioneer
coordinator of Nigeria’s Universal Basic Education Programme. Presently, he is
the Chairman of the Nigerian Presidential Task Team on Education.

Ayo Alani

is a Professor of Economics of Education and head of the Department
of Educational Administration, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He has published
widely in reputable journals within and outside Nigeria. He has served as consultant
on Educational Management to a number of organizations and has delivered
several papers at training programmes.

Adams Otuoze U. Onuka

is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of
Education; Fellow, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies; Programme Officer,
Evaluation, Distance Learning Centre; Chairman, Anti-Cultism Campaign
Committee and Director, Centre for Social Orientation – all at the University of
Ibadan, Nigeria. He is also the National President, Nigerian Association of
Educational Researchers and Evaluators.

Blessing Adeoye

is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science and
Technology Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His areas of specialization
and interests are the teaching and learning of technology, the use of research to
improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools. His most recent work has
been in the area of educational technology, relationship between the use of
technology and culture, e-learning, and the use of social networking tools to
support teaching and learning. He has consulted for the US Army Corps of
Engineer in the United States and the National Teacher Institute in Nigeria. He is
an active member of numerous national and international organizations and has
published extensively in both local and international journals.

Anthonia N. Maduekwe

is an Associate Professor of English as a Second
Language (ESL) in the Department of Arts and Social Sciences Education,
University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is a teacher trainer and consultant. She has over
forty publications in learned journals, both locally and internationally. She is an
active member of various professional bodies, such as the World Council of
Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI), the International Association of Teachers
of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and the Reading Association of
Nigeria (RAN). She consults in various capacity building and teacher training
areas for development-oriented organizations, including UNICEF

Emmanuel O. Fagbamiye

is an international scholar and a Professor of
Educational Management. He has been involved in teacher education since 1970
when he joined the Faculty of Education, Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada.
After two years in this institution that trained graduate teachers for Western
Manitoba, he returned to Nigeria and joined the Faculty of Education, University
of Lagos in 1975 and served for 31 years before retiring in 2005. He served at
the National Open University of Nigeria from 2005 till 2007 when he proceeded
to Kampala International University, Uganda, as Director of its Open and Distance
Learning Institute. He served in that capacity until June 2010 when he returned to
Nigeria. Currently, he is a consultant on the effective management of educational
institutions.

Victor Owohtu

is a Professor of French Language Education in the Faculty of
Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He has had extensive teacher training
and research experience over the last 32 years in the use of conventional/traditional
and modern information technologies in the language classroom. He is a former
Director of the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He has
been a UNESCO resource person and consultant for several years now and he is
the Chairman/Lead Expert, Education Sector, Nigerian National Commission
for UNESCO.

Cecilia Olubunmi Oladapo

is a Professor in the Department of Adult
Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is deeply committed to Gender
and the Psychology of Adult Learning. She has contributed significantly to various
journals and books in these areas, both locally and internationally. She is an active
member of Nigerian National Council for Adult Education (NNCAE) and
currently the Assistant National Secretary for the Nigerian chapter of the
Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA).

Simeon Dosunmu

is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Foundations
and Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University,
Ojo, Nigeria. He specializes in Sociology of Education. He is a member of
the Editorial Board of the Nigerian Journal of Sociology of Education.

Anne I. Fabiyi

is a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Administration,
University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is an expert in education planning and
management and a member of many professional bodies, some of which are
the Nigerian Association for Educational Administration and Planning and the
British Education Leadership Management Society.

Francis M. Isichei

is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education in the
Department of Educational Foundations, University of Lagos. For more than
two decades, he has taught and researched in philosophy of education and has
published widely in this area, at both the national and international levels.

Meshach Mobolaji Ogunniyi

is a Senior Professor of Science Education in
the Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is
Director/UNESCO Chair, School of Science and Mathematics Education,
University of the Western Cape. He has been involved in university teaching and
research for over three decades, he has published over 150 refereed articles, and
contributed to books and conference proceedings. He has supervised many
masters, doctoral and post-doctoral students.

Emmanuel Mushayikwa

is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the School of Science
and Mathematics Education at the University of the Western Cape. He has also
been recently appointed Senior Lecturer of Physics Education within the University
of the Witwatersrand’s Marang Centre for Science and Mathematics Education.
He has been involved in in-service teacher education since 1996. He has worked
as a National Co-ordinator for the Science Education In-service Teacher Training
(SEITT) programme at the University of Zimbabwe. He was also a Project
Manager of the Mathematics and Science Education Project at the School of
Education at the University of Cape Town and is currently involved in two large
projects dealing with the Nature of Science, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and
Materials Development at the University of the Western Cape.

Titilayo D. Baiyelo

is a Professor of Physics Education in the Department of
Science and Technology Education, University of Lagos, Lagos. He is currently
the Chairman of the Lagos State branch of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria. He has a wide experience in teaching and research in science education,
with special interest in Measurement and Evaluation, and Technology Education.

Catherine Oyenike Oke

is a Senior Lecturer in Integrated Science/Biology
Education at the Department of Science and Technology Education, University
of Lagos and former Chief Lecturer and Dean, Adeniran Ogunsanya College
of Education, Otto Ijanikin, Lagos. An active member of the Science Teachers
Association of Nigeria (STAN) and the Curriculum Organisation of Nigeria
(CON), she is also a consultant to the Teacher Registration Council in Nigeria and
the Nigeria Teachers Institute. She has varied experience in teaching, research,
science education and curriculum development and implementation.

Sheidu A. Sule

is a lecturer in the department of Educational Administration, University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Biodun Ogunyemi

is a Professor of Social Studies and Citizenship Education.
He was Head of Department, Curriculum Studies and Instructional Technology,
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria (2006-2008) and Dean, Faculty
of Education at the same University (2008-2010). He has participated in many
curriculum development projects in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.

Alaba Agbatogun

is a Lecturer in Educational Technology in the Department
of Curriculum Studies and Instructional Technology, Olabisi Onabanjo University,
Ago-Iwoye. Nigeria. He is currently a PhD candidate in the same field at the
University of Edinburg, United Kingdom.

Afolasade Airat Sulaiman

is a Counselling Psychologist and a Lecturer in the
Department of Educational Foundations and Counselling Psychology, Lagos
State University, Ojo, Nigeria. She is currently the Assistant Director (Academics)
Lagos State University, Jibowu Campus, Lagos. Her focus is on preventive intervention.
She is much concerned about preventive counselling rather than remedial
and compensatory counselling.

Kayode Ajayi

is a Professor of Educational Management in the Department of
Educational Management, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State,
Nigeria. He was formerly the Provost of the Federal College of Education,
Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria; Dean, Faculty of Education and Postgraduate
School, Olabisi Onabanjo, University Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria; and also Deputy Vice
Chancellor, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He is currently a
Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Management, University of
Ibadan, Nigeria.

Adeyinka Adeniji

is a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Foundations and Management, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Titilayo Soji-Oni

is an English Language expert, teacher trainer, style editor and consultant. She is an active member of the Reading Association of Nigeria (RAN).

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