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Author	Yamada, Shoko, author
Title	Dignity of Labour for African Leaders [electronic resource] : The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School / Shoko Yamada
Imprint	Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
	[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
	Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

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Descript	1 online resource (1 PDF (xviii, 312 pages))
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Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index
Contents	part I. Framework of the study -- Introduction -- Literature review -- part II. Global discourse on the colonial education in Africa and its constructs -- The context which conditioned the discourse -- Genesis of British colonial education policies -- Philosophical sources of inspiration for African education -- Political context on the Gold Coast -- Educational discourse and Guggisberg's administration -- Achimota School as an experiment -- Educational adaptation and public response in Ghana after independence -- Conclusion
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Summary	From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is presented around two foci of decision-making: one is the Memorandum on Education Policy in British Tropical Africa, issued by the British Colonial Office in 1923; another is the Achimota School established on the Gold Coast Colony (present-day Ghana) as a model school in 1927. Ideas brought from different sources were mingled and converged on the areas where the motivations of actors have coincided. The local and the global was linked through the chains of discourse, interacting with global economic, political and social concerns. The book also vividly describes how the ideals of colonial education were realized in Achimota School
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Subject	Achimota School
	Education and state -- Ghana
	Education and state -- Africa
	Great Britain -- Colonies -- Education -- History
	Electronic books
	Electronic books.
Alt Author	Project Muse, distributor
	Project Muse
ISBN	9789956550609
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