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The Moroccan soul : French education, colonial ethnology, and Muslim resistance, 1912-1956 / Spencer D. Segalla.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Segalla, Spencer D.
- Series:
- France overseas.
- France overseas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Morocco--History--20th century.
- Education.
- French--Morocco--History--20th century.
- French.
- Education and state--Morocco.
- Education and state.
- Islamic religious education--Morocco.
- Islamic religious education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Before French conquest, education played an important role in Moroccan society as a means of cultural reproduction and as a form of cultural capital that defined a person's social position. Primarily religious and legal in character, the Moroccan educational system did not pursue European educational ideals. Following the French conquest of Morocco, however, the French established a network of colonial schools for Moroccan Muslims designed to further the agendas of the conquerors. The Moroccan Soul examines the history of the French education system in colonial Morocco, the development of French
- Contents:
- Empire and education
- An uncertain beginning
- The West African connection
- A new pedagogy for Morocco?
- A psychological ethnology
- "A worker proletariat with a dangerous mentality"
- Elite demands
- Nests of nationalism
- Legacies and reversals.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-13101-X
- 9786612131011
- 0-8032-2468-0
- OCLC:
- 609843205
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