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Agenda Wednesday July 13. Discussion: Schmidt and Barnes Lecture: The development of colonial education. Development of colonial education. Educational policy illustrates colonial intentions. Education facilitated social and economic mobility. Education as an equalizing force.
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AgendaWednesday July 13 • Discussion: Schmidt and Barnes • Lecture: The development of colonial education
Development of colonial education • Educational policy illustrates colonial intentions. • Education facilitated social and economic mobility. • Education as an equalizing force. • Facilitated state employment. • Cultural imperialism or development and modernity?
Contrasting forms of education • Differences among British, French, and Portuguese colonialists. • Competition with religious schools. • Settler vs. non-settler situations.
Mission education • Missionaries exerted greatest influence over education from the 1850s-1920s. • Mission education was embedded in the process of conversion. • Based on the ‘civilising’ principles of European education. • Functionalist view taken by colonial states.
Ideological role of colonial education • Colonial states intervened in education to a greater extant beginning in the 1920s. • Philanthropic role, connected to ‘civilization and progress’. • ‘Loyal African subjects’. • Conscious construction of curriculum.
Colonial views of ‘adaptation’ • Created by Jesse Jones to serve the US South, early 1900s. • Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, ‘self-reliance’. • Debate: is Western education suitable for non-western people? • Adaptative focus on; • Health and hygiene • Housing and living conditions • Use of local resources for agriculture and handicrafts • Organisation of leisure time
…cont’d • Phelps-Stokes Commissions • West Africa, 1920-21 • East Africa, 1924
African responses to colonial education • ‘Bush’ schools. • Tanzanian educational reform. • Ghanaian literary societies.
Conclusions • Education as a paradox. • Driven by African interests. • Multitude of experiences.
P2/C3 Benjamin Lawrance. • P4/C1 Ruth Ginio. • P3/C2 Emily Lynn Osborn.