What is UNESCO doing to support the mainstreaming of the GHA into education?
UNESCO provides specific tailored support to countries at the regional and national levels to help them with the mainstreaming of the General History of Africa into local education systems.
UNESCO has been supporting education stakeholders in Africa, and in Latin America and the Caribbean, through a series of capacity-strengthening workshops. These workshops help countries identify key entry points to integrate the GHA into their policies, curricula, subject syllabuses and in other education dimensions, guided by a decolonial vision of education.
UNESCO, with the support of the International Bureau for Education (IBE), gathered education policy-makers, curriculum developers and specialists, pedagogical advisers and teacher trainers with the aim to
assess the current state of history teaching and learning in basic and secondary education in their respective countries;and, more specifically, assess the role of and approach to the study of African history and culture in their national curricula, and the extent of the GHA’s integration therein.
Country specialists were able to explore ways to contextualize the education materials to their specific regional and national needs and priorities.
The main outcomes of these workshops were the elaboration of national GHA action plans and the creation of a collaborative network of stakeholders, through which they can share experiences and best practices.