The Moroccan Soul : French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1496202147
ISBN-13
9781496202147
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
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University of Nebraska Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 2018
Print length
340 Pages
Weight
512 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.80 x 2.40 cms
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FranceNorth AfricaAfrican historyHistory of educationAfrican history
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Following the French conquest of Morocco in 1911 the French established a network of colonial schools for Moroccan Muslims designed to further the agendas of the conquerors. This book examines the history of the French educational system in colonial Morocco, the development of French conceptions about the ""Moroccan soul,"" and the effect these ideas had on pedagogy, policy making, and politics.
Before French conquest, education played an important role in Moroccan society as a means of cultural reproduction and as a form of cultural capital that defined a person''s social position. Primarily religious and legal in character, the Moroccan educational system did not pursue European educational ideals. Following the French conquest of Morocco, however, the French established a network of colonial schools for Moroccan Muslims designed to further the agendas of the conquerors. The Moroccan Soul examines the history of the French education system in colonial Morocco, the development of French conceptions about the "Moroccan Soul," and the effect of these ideas on pedagogy, policy making, and politics.
Fueled in large part by French conceptions of "Moroccanness" as a static, natural, and neatly bounded identity, colonial schooling was designed to minimize conflict by promoting the consent of the colonized. This same colonial school system, however, was also a site of interaction between colonial authorities and Moroccan Muslims, and became a locus of changing strategies of Moroccan resistance and contestation, which culminated in the rise of the Moroccan nationalist movement. Spencer D. Segalla reveals how the resistance of the colonized shaped the ideas and policies of the school system and how French ideas and policies shaped the strategies and discourse of anticolonial resistance.
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