Examines two books that propose direction for the post-colonial, post-Cold War world, and explains why this literature is relevant to English language teaching. Discusses which pedagogical models are used in three distinct contexts and why. Suggests why the choice of pedagogical model is vital, why it must be a local (and personal) decision, and…

Discusses a social studies classroom unit for use with elementary students. Focuses on comparing the age of exploration and space age exploration. Provides background information on both explorations and compares the similarities and differences between the two. Includes suggestions and questions for using this interdisciplinary approach. (CMK)

Examines the individual self of the writer and the growth of Singaporean poetry in relation to the determining pressures of the past and present. The way that the colonial experience and the political, economic, intellectual, and psychological recovery from that experience have affected the self-definition of the poet is explored. (28 references)…

Discusses the diverse cultures in Africa, and the effects of colonization by the French, English, and Portuguese. Explores how culture is used for political purposes in emerging African nations and as a tool for rewriting a past misinterpreted by colonial powers. Discusses issues of cultural pluralism in African countries. (JS)

Describes fifteenth-century Spain's tendencies that proved central to the Columbian enterprise: experience as a conquering and colonizing kingdom, interest in Atlantic expansion, and missionary inclination. Argues that Columbus's arrival in Spain came at the perfect time in Spanish history. Stresses Spain's long history of religious war, conquest,…

Discusses the need for global education in the face of economic influences that result in pollution and the exploitation of developing nations. Cites the difficulties faced by less developed countries that try to compete in world trade. Urges educators to teach students to take morally responsible positions on global relations. (SG)

Rejects views of missionary education as either an arm of colonial conquest or an agent of social amelioration. Suggests that relationships among missionaries, colonists, and indigenous peoples were complex and pragmatic, although the primary missionary objective of religious conversion necessarily involved assimilation of European values and…

A discussion of the role of the French language in Senegal first chronicles language and education policy from the colonial period until 1980, then cites research indicating that French is infrequently used for personal purposes. Recent initiatives to strengthen its status and usage, and obstacles to their success, are outlined. (MSE)

Examines Hong Kong's new English language policy in education. Aims to show that the problems that have confronted English language policymakers in the past two decades owe their origins to the unique historical forces that have shaped the development of education and society in Hong Kong since the mid-nineteenth century. (Author/VWL)

Demonstrates that nationalist pressure, especially from the Gold Coast (Ghana), was the crucial force behind the British Colonial Office's decision to promote higher education in Anglophone West Africa. It places the issues of establishing African universities into the context of an evolving colonial policy of neocolonialism. (SLD)

Discusses pedagogical strategies that encourage keener and more sensitive student reactions to the postcolonial problematics represented in two essays by Jamaican writer Michelle Cliff, essays which often provoke hostility in mainstream, White, middle-class undergraduates. Discusses ways to create a context in the literature or writing classroom…

Reconsiders the Caribbean as an origin-point of the modern global system. Discusses the conquests and colonization of the Caribbean; the slavery system and racial distinctions; the post-emancipation society; and culture, Creolization, and the concept of movement as features of Caribbean society. Provides a bibliography. (CMK)

In the multiethnic South Pacific nation of Fiji--a former British colony--the impact of Western theoretical hegemony on educational discourse is evident. Results of extensive fieldwork show how themes of achievement motivation, differential valuation of education, and cultural deficit theory combine with surviving colonial discourse and…

This book explores the construction of subjectivity and advances a theoretical account of the processes through which subjectivities are constituted in the context of a two-fold study of black subjectivity. The first three chapters are devoted to the deconstruction of the black subject construed by scientific psychology, and the remainder is…

This book investigates if there is a link between Tibetan ethnicity and education and, if so, how it functions. Research focused on the questions "Do the educational achievements of Tibetans in Tibet, India, and Switzerland differ and how can possible differences be attributed to their position as an ethnic group in these countries?"…