UNIT 1: THE MEANING OF EDUCATION

In this first unit we will assess the question of education over the centuries., especially in relation to Africa. We will look at its roots and its development. This perspective may later help us to perceive more clearly the dimensions of the services provided by a university as well as current challenges and future developments. History exerts a powerful influence on education, in the sense that educational development is a function of societies’ historical development, that education bears many traces of the past and, finally, that it is time for education to help make history by preparing for it.