Argues that professive educators must convince Third World peoples of their essential educability, potential, and humanity, and must, therefore, promote and practice a value system that generates throughout the entire course of life a conscious authentic commitment to their communities: the present educational system is not serving any human…

Kenya's dozen or more newspapers and 50 news sheets edited and published by Africans in the turbulent 1945-52 preindependence period were condemned as irresponsible, inflammatory, antiwhite, and seditious by the Kenya colonial government, and this characterization has been accepted by many scholars and journalists, including Africans. There is…

Patterns in which education and intellectual life are affected by the transactions between industrialized nations and the Third World are analyzed, with a focus on organized educational systems, especially in post-secondary education, and less formal structures such as book publishing, mass media, and serious journals. (MJB)

Contact zones are social spaces where different cultures meet, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination. The field of early childhood education is one such contact zone. This paper discusses how one Aboriginal principal of an Aboriginal preschool and primary school in Australia, has to deal with various constructions…

To the explorer or colonist of the 16th and 17th centuries, North America was a vast and uncharted land. The continent appealed to European eyes--blind to the claims of the Native Americans who, to varying degrees of density, inhabited the entire continent--as an open field to claim, to exploit, and to settle. Once permanent settlements were…

This document includes a student text and a teacher resource book. The student text booklet introduces students to precolonial and colonial South Africa and the development of apartheid. Students have the opportunity to evaluate decisions made by anti-apartheid activists and to reflect on South Africa's transition to a post-apartheid society. The…

This paper considers the concept of English as a global language in the context of South African educational policy. The paper first notes that the richer a country is the more possible it is for the rulers to take the social costs of language policy into account, i.e., the Netherlands and Canada can spend vast sums on different aspects of…

The Great Awakening (a period of intense religious revivalism between 1730 and 1745) is analyzed as a mechanism of social change." (Author/SE)

Based on the sources, this reconstruction of a conversation that might have been will give students a valuable insight into the causes of the American Revolution. Included are a student study guide and a suggested quiz. (Author)

Argues that there is little in written American history adverting to the heritage of the black American. Relates the effects of this record on the self image held by black Americans. (RJ)

Notwithstanding the barriers posed by multiplicity of languages, inherited colonial policies, and negative state and citizen attitudes, West African experience supports a policy of using the mother tongue rather than a foreign language as the medium of instruction in schools at all levels. (Author/MJL)

Discusses the current level of library development and librarianship in francophone West Africa, taking Senegal as a case in point. The topics addressed include the impact of colonialism on library development, the structure of library services, the role of UNESCO seminars in library development, and the education of library personnel. (JL)

Analyzes African development strategies as a response to conditions and limitations imposed by a history of colonialism and neocolonialism. (Author/MJL)

Traces the development of the People's Education Movement in Northern Sudan from 1927-1957. The Moslem communities organized intermediate and secondary schools to supplement scarce government schools and as alternatives to those run by Christian missionaries. Particular attention is given to colonial government efforts to control the schools. (AM)

Guam's native Chamorro population has undergone cultural abuse and rapid cultural change. The current system of education reflects the realities of the United States, not those of Guam. Chamorros must reaffirm their political and cultural rights if the island is to build appropriate economic, educational, and social policies. (Author/GC)