Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s–1980s

Damiano Matasci, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Hugo Gonçalves Dores, Damiano Matasci, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Hugo Gonçalves Dores

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783030278007
• eBook ISBN: 9783030278014
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Comparative Education

This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequences in colonial and postcolonial moments. Since the late nineteenth century, the "educability" of the native was the subject of several debates and experiments: numerous voices, arguments, and agendas emerged, involving multiple institutions and experts, governmental and non-governmental, religious and laic, operating from the corridors of international organizations to the towns and rural villages of Africa. This plurality of expressions of political, social, cultural, and economic imagination of education and development is at the core of this collective work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: Historical Trajectories of Education and Development in (Post)Colonial Africa
• Part I. Education, Living Standards and Social Development
• Part II. Training Economic Actors
• Part III. Entanglements and Competing Projects
• Back Matter