Education in British Colonial Dependencies, 1919‐39: a re‐appraisal

Whitehead, Clive

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“…The model of industrial education that was exported to Africa, for example, was based on the education at Tuskegee and the Hampton Institute (Yamada 2008). In addition, it was not uncommon for the American specialist to serve as an expert on educational issues in Africa and the colonies (Persianis 1996;Whitehead 1981). The racial caste system that was prevalent in North America prior to the Civil Rights Act was exported to Africa, with apartheid providing a mirror-image of Plessey vs. Ferguson.…”

Section: Colonial Curriculum and Social Reproductionmentioning

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Schooled for Servitude: The Education of African Children in British Colonies, 1910–1990

Malisa

Missedja

2019

Genealogy

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Our paper examines the education of African children in countries that were colonized by Britain, including Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. We show how education plays an important role in shaping and transforming cultures and societies. Although the colonies received education, schools were segregated according to race and ethnicity, and were designed to produce racially stratified societies, while loyalty and allegiance to Britain were encouraged so that all felt they belonged to the British Empire or the Commonwealth. In writing about the education of African children in British colonies, the intention is not to convey the impression that education in Africa began with the arrival of the colonizers. Africans had their own system and history of education, but this changed with the incursion by missionaries, educators as well as conquest and colonialism.

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Section: Colonial Curriculum and Social Reproductionmentioning

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Schooled for Servitude: The Education of African Children in British Colonies, 1910–1990

Malisa

Missedja

2019

Genealogy

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“…The early age at which Muslim girls were conventionally married was an obstacle. 46 Hence in letters and memoirs her strongly expressed sense of achievement when this 'long tradition' was broken. The local emir agreed that girls should no longer be expected to marry young and certainly by the age of 14, so that some could therefore be trained as primary school teachers at a new Women's Training Centre in Sokoto.…”

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Woman's Work in the Service of Empire: Lady Margaret Field (1905–94) from School Teacher to Governor's Wife

Constantine

2018

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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“…In the later years of colonialism, the colonial administration facilitated racially segregated education systems, as well as offered limited education opportunities for Africans (Whitehead 1981). It also recommended and enabled grant-in-aid towards agriculture and artisanal training, which at the same time sought to guarantee that Africans did not rise up against colonial rule (White 1996).…”

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Agentive role of government in African education: North Nyanza, 1890–1920

Omwami¹

2014

Journal of Educational Administration and History

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This paper examines the agentive role of the colonial administration in accessing formal education for Africans in North Nyanza, Kenya from 1890 to 1920. It demonstrates the complexities of the colonial experience in which the ultimate application of policy and practice was shaped by the overriding principle of protection of the economic and political interests of the immigrant settler community. Africans lacked institutional agency in government functioning in the racialised society in this period. The agentive role of the colonial administration in improving conditions for African populations faltered from its earliest conception. The colonial project ultimately fell short of its goal, as the governmental commitment to improving the education for African populations was compromised by the agenda to advance the commercial interest of the colonial empire and the dominant influence of the European settler class.

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Education in British Colonial Dependencies, 1919‐39: a re‐appraisal

Cited by 29 publications

References 1 publication

Schooled for Servitude: The Education of African Children in British Colonies, 1910–1990

Schooled for Servitude: The Education of African Children in British Colonies, 1910–1990

Woman's Work in the Service of Empire: Lady Margaret Field (1905–94) from School Teacher to Governor's Wife

Agentive role of government in African education: North Nyanza, 1890–1920

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