| Disciplined Development: Teachers and Reform in Ghana Contributor(s): Dull, Laura J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739110500 ISBN-13: 9780739110508 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $82.17 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2006 Annotation: Drawing from her experiences working with prospective teachers in Ghana, Laura J. Dull explores the complexities and contradictions of education in a country both skeptical of U.S. and World Bank policies and fearful of rejecting them. Her analysis provides a powerful case study of teacher preparation and nation-building in the broader context of post-colonial development and globalization in Africa. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General - Education | Research - Education | Comparative |
| Dewey: 371.100 |
| LCCN: 2006006457 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.28" W x 9.04" (0.67 lbs) 118 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power and Gramsci's theories on hegemony, Laura J. Dull argues in this insightful volume that Ghanian teachers' diverse roles-as moral disciplinarians, ambivalent partners with global donors and lenders, romantic racialists of Africans-illustrate the ways in which educators deploy history and nationalism as strategies of power in support of, but also in opposition to, dominant systems. On the one hand, by enforcing strict morality, 'modern' attitudes and hard work in schools, teachers appear to consent to the hegemonic terms for development that their leaders have adopted: neo-liberal economics and liberal democracy, Christian morals and work ethics, and scientific rationalism. In the discourse of the World Bank and United States Agency for International Development, teachers become their 'partners' when they teach children to avoid acts of national 'indiscipline, ' as Ghanians would say, such as ethnic prejudice or corruption. On the other hand, however, teachers warn children to be skeptical of immoral and deceptive 'white men' who underdeveloped Africa and continue to undermine Ghana's autonomy. Discipline therefore becomes necessary and important because it provides the means by which the country will finally achieve de-colonialization and independence |