Reconceptualizing the ‘learning crisis’ in Africa: Putting children, communities, and languages at the center - World Education Blog
Across Africa, the phrase ‘learning crisis’ has become shorthand for the continent’s education challenges. As the 2022 and 2024 Spotlight Reports on Africa show, however, the learning crisis is not new. Nonetheless, the crisis framing risks narrowing our vision. When learning is reduced to assessment results, we overlook children’s lived experiences, teachers’ professional agency, and the linguistic and cultural worlds shaping classrooms.
