Shepherd Ndondo Editor

Christopher Ndlovu has a PhD in sociology from the University of
KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, and is currently chair of the Department
of Educational Foundations at Lupane State University in Zimbabwe. His
research interests are indigenous knowledge systems and their integration
into the formal school curriculum, and the advancement of rural education.
His monograph Quality Education in Rural Learning Ecologies in
Zimbabwe (Peter Lang, 2023) won first prize in the NIHSS awards in 2023.

Shepherd Ndondo completed his PhD at the University of Fort Hare.
He is an educator whose research focus is on how values education affects
learners’ academic performance in secondary schools in rural communities.
He also has a research interest in rural communities’ marginalization on
educational issues and possible intervention measures