I need help with the following assignment: Topic: Barriers to learning within the African context. Read and organize what you have learned in...

A mind map is a way to brainstorm for a writing assignment by organizing your ideas visually. Place your main topic in the middle of a blank sheet of paper. You might place it inside a circle and draw arrows pointing outward. Each arrow will then point to one of your subpoints. Each subpoint will be a paragraph in your paper. It can have additional arrows leading to supporting statements.

In this case, you would write "Barriers to Learning in Africa" in the middle. Draw arrows to connect your main idea to your subpoints, which would be individual barriers to learning. For each barrier, draw additional arrows to your supporting statements, which would be specific facts about how these barriers affect education in Africa and why these problems occur. This information would come from your assigned reading.

For example, one barrier might be language. You could include facts about the many languages that are spoken in Africa and how only one or two languages are spoken in schools, so children who only speak regional dialects will not understand the teacher. Another barrier might be lack of funding for public education. You could include figures about the number of areas that have no schools, which governments do not or cannot fund education, or the problems of overreliance on schools funded by private charities.