Projektleiter, Anprechpartner: | Briffaerts, Jan |
Name des Projektes: | "Indigenism" and "assimilationism" in Congolese primary education. A case study on the educational mentality and reality in the Belgian Congo (1908-1960) |
Vorauss. Abschluss: | 2004 |
Anschrift, Institut: | Catholic University of Leuven, history of Education Section, Department of Educational Sciences |
Darstellung des Forschungsvorhabens: | Whereas most of the previous historical research on colonial education in Belgian Congo concentrates on the educational action at the so-called macro- and meso-level, our actual interest focus on the educational act at the micro-level. Our project will not be in the first place a reconstruction of the pursued educational policy, but the emphasis will lay on the daily reality of school life. Especially the contact between the coloniser and the colonised will thus be replaced by "classroom history". Ge-ographically our research focuses on the Mbandaka-area (formerly Coquilhatville). |
benutzte Materialien: | The limited source material from the side of the Congolese forces us to concentra-te on the supply side of the educational act, on the intentions and mentality of the missionaries at the level of the chalkboard. For answering these questions concerning educational methods and intentions, together with the study of the classroom climate all kind of sources will be used: scholl inspection reports , schoolbooks, correspon-dence, eye-witness reports, (semi-)scientific literature on education in the Congo, photographs, educational programs and other policy documents, popularising articles for the Congolese audience, missionary magazines,...The unedited sources will be found in congregational archives in Congo, in Belgium and Italy (Catholic congrega-tions) and the United Kingdom and the United States (Protestant congregations); in government archives in Belgium and Congo (e.g. "Bureau de l`enseignement catho-lique" in Kinshasa); and in the Aequatoria Archives in Bamanya (available on micro-fiche, cf. http://www.uia.ac.be/aequatoria/) |
Status: | Doctoral dissertation
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Erfassungsdatum: | 14. 01. 2002 |
Korrekturdatum: | 02. 04. 2004 |