Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End"The barbarian rules by force; the cultivated conqueror teaches." This maxim form the age of empire hints at the usually hidden connections between education and conquest. In Learning to Divide the World, John Willinsky brings these correlations to light, offering a balanced, humane, and beautifully written account of the ways that imperialism's educational legacy continues to separate us into black and white, east and west, primitive and civilized. |
Contents
TWO An Adventure in Learning | 23 |
THREE Imperial ShowandTell | 55 |
FOUR The Educational Mission | 89 |
FIVE History and the Rise of the West | 115 |
SIX Geographies of Difference | 137 |
SEVEN Science and the Origin of Race | 161 |
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