'Dignity of Labour' for African Leaders
Subtitle: the formation of education policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School on the Gold Coast
By: Shoko Yamada
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789956550005
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Education and state; History; Colonies; Education; British colonies; Achimota School
Description: "From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is presented around two foci of decision-making: one is the Memorandum on Education Policy in British Tropical Africa, issued by the British Colonial Office in 1923; another is the Achimota School established on the Gold Coast Colony (present-day Ghana) as a model school in 1927. Ideas brought from different sources were mingled and converged on the areas where the motivations of actors have coincided. The local and the global was linked through the chains of discourse, interacting with global economic, political and social concerns. The book also vividly describes how the ideals of colonial education were realized in Achimota School."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Framework of the study. Introduction ; Literature review; title: Part II. Global discourse on the colonial education in Africa and its constructs. The context which conditioned the discourse ; Genesis of British colonial education policies ; Philosophical sources of inspiration for African education; title: Part III. National discourse in education and struggle over the hegemony. Political context on the Gold Coast ; Educational discourse and Guggisberg's administration ; Achimota School as an experiment; title: Part IV. Post-history and comclusion. Eucational adaptation and public response in Ghana after independence ; Conclusion.