Our Civilizing Mission The Lessons of Colonial Education

Our Civilizing Mission is both an exploration of colonial education and a response to current anxieties about the foundations of the 'humanities'. Focusing on the example of Algeria, it asks what can be learned by treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education.

About the author

Nick Harrison is a Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at King's College London.

Summary

Our Civilizing Mission is both an exploration of colonial education and a response to current anxieties about the foundations of the 'humanities'. Focusing on the example of Algeria, it asks what can be learned by treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Harrison, Nicholas (Department of French Harrison
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.06.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781786941763
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-176-3
• Pages: 368
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO