Ethnicity, Exclusion, and Exams: Education Policy and Politics in Burundi from the Independent Republics to the Civil War (1966-1993).

Autor/in	Dunlop, Emily
Titel	Ethnicity, Exclusion, and Exams: Education Policy and Politics in Burundi from the Independent Republics to the Civil War (1966-1993). Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ethnizität, Ausgrenzung und Prüfungen in Burundi: Bildungspolitik von der Unabhängigkeit bis zum Bürgerkrieg (1966-1993).
Quelle	In: Africa Spectrum, 56 (2021) 2, S. 151-171 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1868-6869
DOI	10.1177/00020397211023513
Schlagwörter	Ethnizität; Bildungspolitik; Burundi; Zentralafrika; Bildungspolitik; Ungleichheit; Ethnizität; Ungleichheit; Exklusion; Burundi; Zentralafrika
Abstract	Education policy can embed ethnic inequalities in a country. Education in Burundi, with its historically exclusive political institutions and education, represents an important case for understanding these interactions. In this article, I interview twelve Burundians about how they experienced and perceived ethnicity and politics in their schooling from 1966 to 1993. I argue that education contributed to tangible and perceived social hierarchies based on ethnic inequalities. I show that this exclusion reflected both overt and covert policy goals, through proxies used to identify ethnicity in schools and through the exclusive nature of national exams at the time, which promoted members of the Tutsi minority at the expense of the majority Hutus. This study has implications for understanding how perceptions of inequality in education manifest as grievances against the state. It sheds light on the importance of understanding covert education policy as a potential mechanism for generating exclusion and contributing to conflict.
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2022/2