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Benefits Bestowed?: Education and British Imperialism
Contributor(s): Mangan, J. A. (Editor)
ISBN: 0415750628     ISBN-13: 9780415750622
Publisher: Routledge
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Reference
- Education | History
Dewey: 370.941
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs)
 
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This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with:

  • The myths and visions of imperialism;

  • The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared;

  • The use of education as a means of disseminating and reinforcing imperial images;

  • The changing concept of imperialism as reflected in the emphases of educational literature

  • The different perceptions of imperialism in the various social and ethnic strata of metropolitan and overseas communities and education systems

  • The assimiliation, adaptation and rejection of metropolitan educational models

  • The issue of imperial education as enlightenment, hegemony and control.

The book features chapters by educationalists, historians and sociologists on education as a cornerstone in the construction of imperial control.