The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Flow Blue China
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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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780891452362 |
| ISBN 10 | 0891452362 |
| Title | The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Flow Blue China |
| Author | Mary Frank Gaston |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Collector Books |
| Year published | 2005-12-03 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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