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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826196703321

Autore

Segalla Spencer D

Titolo

The Moroccan soul : French education, colonial ethnology, and Muslim resistance, 1912-1956 / / Spencer D. Segalla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-13101-X

9786612131011

0-8032-2468-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

France overseas

Disciplina

370.964

Soggetti

Education - Morocco - History - 20th century

French - Morocco - History - 20th century

Education and state - Morocco

Islamic religious education - Morocco

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Empire and education -- An uncertain beginning -- The West African connection -- A new pedagogy for Morocco? -- A psychological ethnology -- "A worker proletariat with a dangerous mentality" -- Elite demands -- Nests of nationalism -- Legacies and reversals.

Sommario/riassunto

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