A Teaching Safari Book

The protagonists in A Teaching Safari are young, idealistic, adventurous American teachers, joined by British colleagues, who were recruited by the Teachers for East Africa Project (TEA) between 1961 and 1964 to work for two years in the secondary schools of East Africa. Being young and zealous, the American teachers wanted to alter the East African educational system to suit their predilections for injecting academic rationality and modernity into all their situations which struck them as deficient in these qualities. The drama of the TEA story lies in what happened when the enthusiastic and idealistic teachers attempted to cope with the teaching requirements of a surprisingly alien and change-resistant education system. The book's account of the teachers' experiences in what was then a novel international education project is likely to be of considerable interest to all who work in secondary schools or otherwise care about what goes on there.