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Our Civilizing Mission – The Lessons of Colonial Education

Autor Nicholas Harrison
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mai 2019
Our Civilizing Mission is at once an exploration of colonial education, and a response to current anxieties about the historical and conceptual foundations of the 'humanities'. On the one hand, focusing in detail on the example of Algeria, it treats colonial education as a facet of colonialism, exploring work by 'colonized' writers that attests to the suffering inflicted by colonialism, to the shortcomings of colonial education, and to the often painful mismatch between the world of the colonial school and students' home cultures. On the other hand, 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. Placing writers' literary and personal accounts of their transformative and often alienating experiences of colonial education in historical context, it raises difficult questions - about languages, literatures, ways of thinking, nationalism and national cultures - that need to be reconsidered by anyone teaching subjects such as French, or English, especially through literature.
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ISBN-13: 9781786941763
ISBN-10: 1786941767
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press

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

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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.