Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Making a Case for a Socio-cultural Approach -- Introduction -- Defining Pedagogy -- Learner-centred Pedagogy: A Brief Description -- Learner-centred Pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Technical Rationality as an Epistemology of Practice -- Towards a Socio-cultural Approach to Pedagogy -- Tissue Rejection: An Analytical Tool -- Conclusion -- 2. Why Learner-centred Pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa? -- Introduction -- Why Learner-centred Pedagogy now? -- Aid to Education from a World Systems Approach -- Liberal Democracy and Capitalism: The (In)separable Marriage? -- The Modernisation Paradigm: 1950-1980 -- Educational Aid and the Modernisation Project -- Education and Democratisation in Periphery States -- Learner-centredness and Economic Development -- PEIP and the Consolidation of Democracy in Botswana: The Role of USAID -- Conclusion -- 3. Learner-centredness and Teacher-centredness: Pedagogical Paradigms? -- Introduction -- Concept of Paradigm -- Epistemology and Pedagogical Paradigms -- Scientific Legitimation of Teacher-centred Pedagogy -- Scientific Justification of Learner-centered Pedagogy -- Conclusion -- 4. Teacher-centred Pedagogy as Co-construction -- Introduction -- Power and Power Relations: A Foucaultian View -- Classroom Reality as Co-construction -- Findings and Discussion -- Construction of Teacher Dominance: The Role of Students -- Teachers' Deficit View of Students -- Conclusion -- 5. Social Structure and Pedagogy -- Introduction -- Bourdieu on Education and Cultural Transmission -- Tswana Cosmology as a Variant of African Cosmology -- Tswana Child-rearing Practices and Formal Education: The link -- Conclusion -- 6. Post-independence Educational Planning and Classroom Practice -- Introduction.

Human Resource Planning in the Post-1966 era -- Organisational Features of Mapoka Senior Secondary School (MSSS) -- Conclusion -- 7. Missionary Education and Pedagogical Practice -- Introduction -- Educational Development in Botswana under British administration -- Primary Education -- Secondary Education -- Missionary Education and Classroom Practice -- The Ideology of Cultural Supremacy -- Conclusion -- 8. Curriculum as Context of Teaching and Learning -- Introduction -- Contexts of Reform -- A 'New' Role for Education? -- The Rise of Accountability -- Conclusion -- 9. Conclusion. Beyond Colonising Pedagogy -- Bibliography -- Back cover.