The changing face of colonial education in Africa : education, science and development. / Peter Kallaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kallaway, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Africa--History--20th century.

Education and state.

Education--Africa--History--20th century.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : African Sun Media, [2021]

Summary:

The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa offers a detailed and nuanced perspective of colonial history, based on 15 years of research that throws fresh light on the complexities of African history and the colonial world of the first half of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Tables

Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowedgements

Notes

Abbreviations

Introduction

The genesis of educational policy in late colonial Africa: 1900-1950s

Colonial empires and education

The origins of "development" in Africa and its relationship to education

India

Black American experience and African colonial education

Individual actors

A scientific approach to African colonial education

Chapter 1

The International Missionary Council and education in colonial Africa*

History of education and mission education

The context

Broad themes of mission policy in 1920-1930s

The conferences and deliberations of the IMC as a window through which we can observe these shifts in policy

Education as a key to mission policy

The development of education

World Missionary Conferences

Edinburgh: 1910

Edinburgh and education

After Edinburgh

The Jerusalem conference: 1928

Jerusalem: education

Post-Jerusalem conference

The Tambaram conference: 1938

"Evangelicalism"

Social involvement

Tambaram and education

Conclusion

Chapter 2

Conference litmus

The development of a conference and policy culture in the interwar period with special reference to the New Education Fellowship and British colonial education in Southern Africa*

The 1934 South African Education Conference as a benchmark of changing educational discourse

The development of professional educational networks from the late nineteenth century

The NEF in the interwar period

Interwar NEF conferences and the links with the British Commonwealth

British Commonwealth Education Conference: 1931

NEF conference in South Africa: 1934

Cheltenham conference: 1936

Australasia: 1937

African educational networks in the interwar years

Conclusions

Notes.

Chapter 3

Welfare and education in British colonial Africa*

1918-1945

Background

Welfare and education

Chapter 4

Science and policy

Anthropology and education in British colonial Africa during the interwar years*

Science and African policy development in the interwar era

Science, anthropology and policy

"What were anthropologists after?"

Anthropology and education in the African colonial context

The NEF conference in 1934 and social anthropology

Conference presentations and assessment

The critique of anthropology as a science of policy

Further developments in anthropology: 1934-1940

Chapter 5

Diedrich Westermann

Linguistics and the ambiguities of Colonial Science in the interwar era*

Kaisersreich

After the German Empire

Westermann as linguist

Westermann and anthropology

Religious background/missionary career

Westermann's contribution to colonial policy in Britain

Westermann and the Third Reich

After 1945

Summary

Chapter 6

Donald Guy Sydney M'timkulu

South African educationalist: 1907-2000

Background: Adams College, Lovedale and Fort Hare

The Carnegie Grant and Yale University

Life at Yale: 1935-1937

Field trips, fieldwork and Christian work

Washington

Schools and normal colleges: Penn normal and industrial school in South Carolina

Tuskegee Institute near Montgomery, Alabama

The Negro universities

Conferences attended

Summary - at the end of the Yale period

The return to South Africa: 1937-1959

Fields of activity

Head teacher role

Adams College

Ohlange Institute

Educational leadership and teacher organizations

South African Institute Race Relations

Education policy debate

Fort Hare

After 1959.

A new home in Canada

Chapter 7

The modernization of tradition? isiXhosa language education and school history

1920-1948 - reform in the work of Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi*

Geneological origins

Mqhayi's education

Mqhayi's career

Literary work

The revision of Xhosa orthography

Xhosa history for schools

Imibengo

The Stewart Xhosa Readers

The contents of Imibengo and the Stewart Xhosa Readers (SXR)

The Senior Xhosa Reader - for high school

Appendices

Appendix 7.1

The works of SEKM which were included in Imibengo*

Appendix 7.2

SEKM's material included in the Stewart Xhosa Readers

THE STEWART XHOSA SENIOR READER: Senior: IIncwadi Zesixhosa Zabafundi: Eyebaphambili211

References

UK Official Papers

Archival Papers referred to:

South Africa:

Contemporary Newspapers and Journals

Books and articles:

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-928314-92-9

OCLC:

1272991971