Tag: curriculum-reform
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Rewrites the Classroom: A New Curriculum for History, Culture and National Identity
Burkina Faso is undertaking a sweeping transformation of its education system, revising curricula and history teaching while expanding national-language instruction, endogenous knowledge, civic education, vocational training and locally produced textbooks. The reform could reach more than 2 million learners through the 2026–2029 REPAIR program, while a growing domestic printing sector aims to give Burkina Faso…
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🇺🇳 The True Size of Africa: Implications for Education and Global Perspectives
For centuries, world maps have been designed using the Mercator projection, a cartographic technique that distorts the size of continents, particularly making Africa appear significantly smaller than it actually is. When Africa is represented at its true size, it becomes evident that the continent is not just larger than commonly depicted, but it is, in…