The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Flow Blue China by Mary Frank Gaston

The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Flow Blue China by Mary Frank Gaston

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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Titel	The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Flow Blue China
Autor	Mary Frank Gaston
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Collector Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-12-03
Seitenanzahl	160
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