Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Subtitle: Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s–1980s
Contributors: Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira; Dores, Hugo Gonçalves; Matasci, Damiano; Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira; Dores, Hugo Gonçalves
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cham
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9783030278014
Subjects: Development studies; Educational strategies & policy; Education; Colonialism & imperialism; History of education
Description: 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.
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