Training the national elites in Colonial Algeria 1920-1954.

Autor/in	Colonna, Fanny
Titel	Training the national elites in Colonial Algeria 1920-1954. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ausbildung der nationalen Eliten im kolonialen Algerien 1920-1954.
Quelle	In: Historical social research, 33 (2008) 2, S. 285-295 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0172-6404
DOI	10.12759/hsr.33.2008.2.285-295
URN	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-191357
Schlagwörter	Afrika; Akademiker; Algerien; Beruf; Elite; Französischunterricht; Ingenieur; Lehrer; Nationalismus; Nordafrika; Politik; Richter; Schulabschluss; Sprache; Student; Arabische Staaten; Hochschule; Kolonialismus; Ausbildung; Lehrer; Schulabschluss; Sprache; Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Französischunterricht; Kolonialismus; Elite; Entwicklungsland; Nationalismus; Politik; Ausbildung; Beruf; Ingenieur; Richter; Akademiker; Hochschule; Hoch Qualifizierter; Student; Afrika; Algerien; Arabische Staaten; Frankofones Afrika; Nordafrika
Abstract	'When dealing with the question of Algerian 'elites' - a term which, by the way, is never used locally - a basic contradiction will become apparent. 'National' they were indeed, those new social categories (doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers, and so on) that the Colonial presence created, either directly or indirectly, among the French or the Arab population. But they became 'nationalistic', meaning that they sought to break completely with the Colonial power, only much later, when the guerilla warfare began in 1954. Focusing on the period between 1920 and 1954, and using archives and interviews, I will try to show today the essential role played by education, particularly by the 'Colonial system of education'. That system was a 'structuring machine' which irresistibly and lastingly contributed to reshaping society from top to bottom as well as the relationship between the two languages. And though the 1954 Revolution denied it, that structure is still alive and functioning today.' (author's abstract)\|.
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2021/1