Full Description
The Changing Landscape of Colonial Education in Africa offers a detailed and nuanced perspective of colonial history, based on fifteen years of research, that throws fresh light on the complexities of African history and the colonial world of the first half of the twentieth century. It provides an analytical background to history of education in the colonial context by balancing contributions by missionary agencies, colonial government, humanitarian agencies, and scientific experts.
The book offers a foundation for the analysis of modern educational policy for the post-colonial state. It attempts to move beyond clichés about colonial education to an understanding of the complexities of how educational policy was developed in different places at different times while giving credence to arguments which see schooling as a form of social control in the colonial environment.
The book will be essential reading for academics, researchers and policy makers looking to better understand colonial education and contextualise modern developments related to the decolonising African education. It is intended to provide an essential background for policy makers by demonstrating the significance of a historical perspective for an understanding of contemporary educational challenges in Africa and elsewhere.
Contents
1. The International Missionary Council (IMC) and Education in Colonial Africa. 2. Policy and Conference networks that shaped education policy (Conference litmus NRF). 3. Welfare and Education in late colonial Africa. 4. Science, Anthropology and Policy in the Field of Colonial Education. 5. Diedrich Westermann and The International Institute of African Languages and Culture: Science and Policy Development in Britain and Germany in the period 1926 to 1945. 6. Donald M'Timkulu : South African educationalist in the Age of Segregation and Apartheid: professionalism, activism and exile. 7. The Modernization of Tradition? isiXhosa Language Education and School History: 1920-1948: The Ambiguities of Orthographic Reform in the work of Samuel Mqhayi, William Bennie and Diedrich Westermann
