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The Importance of Political Education – knowing left from right

A very interesting article in today’s Irish Times discusses whether Europe should focus on education in its engagement with Africa. The article argues that political education is vitally important for all sorts of social and political outputs: ‘Individual Africans need to become more politically sophisticated. It is hard to think of a political party in…

August 19, 2011 in Curriculum review.

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