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Author Segalla, Spencer D.

Title Moroccan Soul : French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (341 pages).
text file
Series France Overseas
France overseas.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Arabic Spellings; Abbreviations Used in the Text; 1. Empire and Education; 2. An Uncertain Beginning; 3. The West African Connection; 4. A New Pedagogy for Morocco?; 5. A Psychological Ethnology; 6. "A Worker Proletariat with a Dangerous Mentality"; 7. Elite Demands; 8. Nests of Nationalism; 9. Legacies and Reversals; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary 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 Fren.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-307) and index.
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Subject Education -- Morocco -- History -- 20th century.
Education.
Morocco.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject French -- Morocco -- History -- 20th century.
French.
Education and state -- Morocco.
Education and state.
Islamic religious education -- Morocco.
Islamic religious education.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780803217782
ISBN 9780803224681 (electronic book)
0803224680 (electronic book)
128213101X
9781282131019
9780803217782 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0803217781 (cloth ; alkaline paper)