Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa: Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s–1980s (1st ed. 2020) (Global Histories of Education)

By: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and Damiano Matasci and Hugo Gonçalves Dores

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Synopsis: This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequences in colonial and postcolonial moments. Since the late nineteenth century, the “educability” of the native was the subject of several debates and experiments: numerous voices, arguments, and agendas emerged, involving multiple institutions and experts, governmental and non-governmental, religious and laic, operating from the corridors of international organizations to the towns and rural villages of Africa. This plurality of expressions of political, social, cultural, and economic imagination of education and development is at the core of this collective work.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030278014
Related ISBNs:: 9783030278007
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 02/25/20
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Education, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Hugo Gonçalves Dores
Edited by:: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo
Edited by:: Damiano Matasci