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Author Segalla, Spencer D., author

Title The Moroccan Soul : French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956 / Spencer D. Segalia
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]

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Description 1 online resource (341 pages)
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
Notes English
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Subject Education -- Morocco -- History -- 20th century
French -- Morocco -- History -- 20th century
Education and state -- Morocco
Islamic religious education -- Morocco
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Education
Education and state
French
Islamic religious education
Morocco
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008036636
ISBN 9780803224681
0803224680
9786612131011
6612131012