African American Education in the Global South: Tracing the Influences of Industrial Training in Early Twentieth-Century Fiji

Autor/in	Close, Kirstie
Titel	African American Education in the Global South: Tracing the Influences of Industrial Training in Early Twentieth-Century Fiji
Quelle	In: History of Education, 52 (2023) 5, S.717-734 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2023.2166594
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Indigenous Populations; Access to Education; Colonialism; Pacific Islanders; African Americans; Religious Education; Christianity; Agricultural Education; Whites; African American History; Educational History; Racial Segregation; Fiji + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sinti und Roma; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Kolonialismus; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Afroamerikaner; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Christentum; Agriculture; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; White; Weißer; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Rassentrennung; Fidschi
Abstract	While Fiji was a British colony, in the early twentieth century, education to Indigenous Fijians was delivered by missions including the Methodist Overseas Mission of Australasia. As argued here, education delivery was influenced by policies for African Americans. Policies from Tuskegee Institute in the American South were transposed to Nausori, where "i taukei" (people of the land) and Indo-Fijians were encouraged into industrial mission schemes, away from traditional communal lifestyles. This article illustrates how contemporary educational philosophies for and by Black men and women were part of a broader education network that acted as a locus of colonial reform. While some in the colonial hierarchy considered his emphasis on agricultural training appropriate to their vision of Native Fijian advancement, concurrently, Fijians themselves -- passing through the mission system promoted competing forms of modernisation. They used missionary education, including influences of Washington's approach, to speak back to British power and authority. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01