Contesting French West Africa - Battles Over Schools and the Colonial Order, 19001950

Informationen zum Autor Harry Gamble is a professor of French and francophone studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio.     Klappentext Harry Gamble is a professor of French and francophone studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio.¿ ¿ Zusammenfassung Critically examines the move toward educational integration that took shape during the immediate postwar period. Growing linkages to the metropolitan school system ultimately had powerful impacts on the course of decolonisation and the making of postcolonial Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Conflicting Visions: Framing French West Africa 2. The Lessons of War: Rethinking the Originaires 3. Toward the Interior: Rural Schools and Colonial Reform 4. Reorienting African Schoolteachers: Agents of the Future 5. Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Popular Front: New Possibilities for Reform 6. The National Revolution in AOF: Debating the Future during the War Years 7. Gaullist Hesitations: From the Brazzaville Conference to the Liberation 8. The Education of African “Citizens”: Struggles over Integration Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Harry Gamble
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780803295490
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9549-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: France Overseas: Studies in Em; France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Em
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries