This research project is part of a larger study that will culminate in a book entitled "Culture and Education: The Social Consequences of Westernization in Contemporary Swaziland." While the major focus of that book is concerned with present day Swaziland, this historical research was needed in order to place the present day study of…

An ideal-typical model of multiculturalism combined with a theory of core values is applied to the development of values in Mauritius as a result of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French settlers and British colonial administrators. Another model is proposed to help explain or predict the likelihood of conflict or harmony between cultural…

The study investigates the formulation of British colonial education policy and attempts to evaluate the hypothesis that the policies formulated by the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies reflected a consistent attempt to orient education policy in the colonies to the local needs for human resource development. The use of historical…