Decolonization(s) and Education. Daniel Maul

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Название Decolonization(s) and Education
Автор произведения Daniel Maul
Жанр Учебная литература
Серия Studia Educationis Historica
Издательство Учебная литература
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isbn 9783631708484



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target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_129b5d30-1815-5cf2-a8c3-7df2c7d2cf66">35 Estevan Guenot, Plan de educacion elemental y de varios establecimientos de utilidad y de beneficencia (Mexico: Imprenta del ciudadano Alejandro Valdés, 1826), 5.

      Parimala V. Rao

      If you give education to the poor -

      It “would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture” (Tory MP Davies Giddy 1807)1

      “The student may be unhappy and discontented in his peculiar position […]” (Governor-General Auckland 1839)2

      “teach him to be discontented with his lot.” (Bal Gangadhar Tilak 1881)3

      “do you wish to make a peasant discontented with his cottage or his lot?” (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1909)4

      Abstract The roots of decolonial projects reach far back to the colonial policies and experiences. The chapter analyses the strong links between the colonial and the post-colonial in the history of nationalist educational proposals. The emergence of the first nationalist educational discourses – particularly from Bal Gangadhar Tilak – appear as a re-elaboration of an ‘imperial idea’ that critically continued the practice of establishing modern education along