Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa: Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s–1980s (Global Histories of Education)

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Contents
Notes on Contributors
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Historical Trajectories of Education and Development in (Post)Colonial Africa
	On Adaptability and “Useful Producers” (1900–1930)
	Development, After Depression (1930–1960)
	Competing Projects (1960–1990)
	Overview: Themes and Problems
	Bibliography
Part I Education, Living Standards and Social Development
Chapter 2 Welfare and Education in British Colonial Africa, 1918–1945
	Conceptualizing Colonial Education
	Welfare and Education
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 3 Une aventure sociale et humaine: The Service des Centres Sociaux in Algeria, 1955–1962
	Fundamental Education at UNESCO and the Service des Centres Sociaux
	The Structure and Organization of the Service des Centres Sociaux
	The Centres Sociaux in the Context of the Algerian War
	The Service des Centres Sociaux’s Innovative Pedagogy
	Conclusion: “An Educational Exception”
	Bibliography
Chapter 4 Education Through Labor: From the deuxième portion du contingent to the Youth Civic Service in West Africa (Senegal/Mali, 1920s–1960s)
	The deuxième portion du contingent: A Disciplinary Heterotopia
		Education Through Labor
	Social Confinement and Hazardous Living Conditions
	Civic Service: A Developmentalist Heterotopia
		Mobilize and Control the Youth
		The Senegalese and Malian Experiences of Civic Service
	The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
		Legislative Legacies
		Obligation, Civic Duty, and Memory
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part II Training Economic Actors
Chapter 5 Becoming a Good Farmer—Becoming a Good Farm Worker: On Colonial Educational Policies in Germany and German South-West Africa, Circa 1890 to 1918
	Conditions and Development Plans for Farming in GSWA—The Necessity for Agricultural Education
	Colonial Knowledge and Tropical Agriculture: A Research and Teaching Subject in Germany—An Administrative Task in GSWA
	“Germany Has the Education and not the Colonies.” The Deutsche Kolonialschule für Landwirtschaft and the Colonial Women’s School
	Educating Africans as Workers? Why or Why Not?
	Bibliography
Chapter 6 Cruce et Aratro: Fascism, Missionary Schools, and Labor in 1920s Italian Somalia
	Introduction
	Church–State Reconciliation
	The Shaping of Colonial Education Under De Vecchi (1923–28)
	Towards Adapted Education, 1930s
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 7 Becoming Workers of Greater France: Vocational Education in Colonial Morocco, 1912–1939
	The Politics of Muslim Vocational Education
	Vocational Education Beyond the Indigenous Classroom
	The Limits of Vocational Training
	Ineffective Reforms and Expansion
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 8 Engineering Socialism: The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in the 1970s and 1980s
	The International Roots of Tanzania’s National Engineering Education
	Socializing Engineers: Protests and Transnational Technocracy
	Engineering Education Under Conditions of Dependency
	Engineering Socialism: Economization and the Undermining of Egalitarianism
	Conclusion: The Legacies and Inequalities of Technocraticizing Socialism
	Bibliography
Part III Entanglements and Competing Projects
Chapter 9 Enlightened Developments? Inter-imperial Organizations and the Issue of Colonial Education in Africa (1945–1957)
	Proclaiming an “Enlightened” Colonialism
	Education: “Moral Character,” the Political Problem
	Creating the Conditions: Old Principles, New Drive, New Challenges
	New Data for a New Policy
	Conclusion
	Archival Sources
Chapter 10 The Fabric of Academic Communities at the Heart of the British Empire’s Modernization Policies
	Universities to Reinvent the Empire
		Establishing New Links Within the Empire
		Training Academic Elites in and for the Colonies
	The Fabric of Imperial Academic Communities
		The Asquith Universities: Agents of a New Cultural Imperialism
		Integrating, Supporting, and Controlling Colonial Students in Great Britain
		Distinguishing Colonial Students from the Immigrant Population
	Training Allies—Academic Communities Serving the New British Imperial Project
		The Specter of Communism
		Highly Sought-After Colonial Elites
		Colonial Resistance
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 11 Exploring “Socialist Solidarity” in Higher Education: East German Advisors in Post-Independence Mozambique (1975–1992)
	How Does “Socialist Solidarity” Integrate into the Mozambican History of Education?
	Mozambican Ideas for Post-Independence Development in Higher Education
	East German Involvement in Mozambique’s (Socialist) Development and International Cooperation in Higher Education
	East German Advisers at the UEM and Internationalist Practices “on the Ground”
		Intercultural Encounters
		Ideological Disputes
		Dialogue and Cooperative Attitude
	Wind of Change and the Legacy of “Socialist Solidarity” at the UEM
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
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