The "Plan Basico" for Colombian higher education, elaborated in the 1960s at the University of California under the sponsorship of the Agency for International Development, is criticized as nondemocratic and designed to serve the political and economic interests of the United States and the national elite rather than the Colombian people…

Argues that despite antipathy toward the Chinese manifested at state and urban levels, the Malay-Chinese relations at the village level in Kelantan, Malaysia, are better than corresponding relationships in the country's more developed states. Suggests both cultural and political reasons for the success of the Chinese group. (Author/GC)

Criticizes attitudes toward the francophone world in French-language textbooks published in North America and suggests corrective measures. Specifically denounces deprecation of local languages and varieties of French, stereotyped portrayals of people, and the assumption that francophone nations are dependent on France for culture and education.…

Presents a speech discussing the role of the United Nations in the maintenance of peace, the need for support of the UN by governments and peoples, and the importance of education for peace to mobilize that support. (CK)

This paper examines historical and future conceptions of adolescence, focusing on how colonialism and its racist underpinnings helped produce turn-of-the-century scientific knowledge about adolescence, using critiques of colonialist discourse to examine the persistence of the youth-as-primitive view, and discussing three dimensions of knowledge…

Focuses on the fiction written by Pacific Islanders, which emerged around 1970 and began to overwrite the perspectives and stereotypes that had characterized colonial narratives set in the Pacific written prior to that times. Pacific Islanders adapted the Standard English code to create a new English with which to express their own cultures and…

Examines the religious and linguistic behavior of the Murid brotherhood in Touba, Senegal. Argues that the patterns of behavior found in the community are idiosyncratic of the brotherhood and set apart Murids from other religious groups. Argues that unlike other forms of resistance against French assimilation movements, Muridism represents one of…

As former colonies struggle with economic development, consumerism competes with environmental awareness and concern. Developing countries should reject the models of the colonial past and create developmental strategies that preserve natural resources. (SK)

Puts film teaching and filmmaking in Canada into colonial context as an endeavor dominated by the United States. Discusses the colonial context; the innovation of U.S. imperialism; feature film exhibition, distribution, and production; studying filmmaking in Canada; and the future of filmmaking in Canada. (SR)

The use of language for political control, cultural preservation, or destruction between Southern Hemisphere countries and their former colonial masters is discussed. Linguistic and educational policy dilemmas in multiethnic, multilingual African countries suggest that linguistic dependency is leading to both technological dependency and…

Views postmodernism and cultural studies as distinct discourses with similar goals related to the deconstruction of ideologies that contribute to the West's domination over indigenous and formerly colonized peoples. Discusses cultural politics and the legitimation of alternative (non-Western) world views as possible channels for both local power…

Examines Pierre Bourdieu's basic theory on language and criticisms of structuralism, transformational grammar, and the speech act theory as they appear in Language and Symbolic Power. Bourdieu's theories are applied to the colonial and postcolonial language situation in Nigeria. (JP)

Ghanaian educational reform has come with many attendant problems that mitigate against school success. Educators are concerned about low funding, weakening teacher morale, absence of textbooks, inadequate infrastructure, inefficient administrative procedures and structures, and underqualified teachers. Reforms must rely on local skills and…

As in the United States, affirmative action policies in Fiji were intended to correct past injustices. However, their proponents' use of colonial discourse fails to acknowledge the historical roots of the lower educational attainment of Fijians, which is a legacy of colonial policies. (SK)

Explains the relationship between Spanish colonialism in Cuba, evangelization of the Indians, and the origins of Cuban culture, as well as the role the Jesuits played in this process of transculturation. Analyzes the first phase in the history of the educational work of the Jesuits in Cuba (1566-1574). (BT)