Dignity of Labour for African Leaders The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School / Shoko Yamada

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yamada, Shōko, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Achimota School.

Education and state--Ghana.

Education and state.

Education and state--Africa.

Education--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xviii, 312 pages))

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018

Summary:

From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is presented around two foci of decision-making: one is the Memorandum on Education Policy in British Tropical Africa, issued by the British Colonial Office in 1923; another is the Achimota School established on the Gold Coast Colony (present-day Ghana) as a model school in 1927. Ideas brought from different sources were mingled and converged on the areas where the motivations of actors have coincided. The local and the global was linked through the chains of discourse, interacting with global economic, political and social concerns. The book also vividly describes how the ideals of colonial education were realized in Achimota School.

Contents:

part I. Framework of the study

Introduction

Literature review

part II. Global discourse on the colonial education in Africa and its constructs

The context which conditioned the discourse

Genesis of British colonial education policies

Philosophical sources of inspiration for African education

Political context on the Gold Coast

Educational discourse and Guggisberg's administration

Achimota School as an experiment

Educational adaptation and public response in Ghana after independence

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789956550609

9956550604

OCLC:

1040548568