Demythologising the Missionaries: a reassessment of the functions and relationships of Christian missionary education under colonialism

MacKenzie, Clayton G.

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“…Thus, hunter, warrior, potter, goldsmith, and others were specialized careers that were goal specific. The advent of the Western education system sought to alter the status quo by converting Indigenous people to offer them services (Mackenzie, 1993), a serious downgrade that divorced them from sustaining themselves with their environments. Against this backdrop, the authors outline the characteristics attached to African indigenous education in support of those presented by Mbiti (1989):…”

Section: African Indigenous Education (Aie)mentioning

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Integrating African Indigenous Education in the Curriculum: A Learning Curve for South Africa

Kugara,

Mdhluli

2023

JCSR

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Even though Western education is indispensable and became a game changer, its adoption in the mainstream education system (curriculum) has substantially strained the passing of relevant skills, values, and knowledge to most African communities. The adoption of Western education was not tailored to the context, realities, and needs of most indigenous communities. The popular and accepted Western education has been applauded for preparing graduates who mostly look for employment, do not resonate with their realities and environment, and can barely create jobs with the acquired education. Unlike indigenous education, which prepared the young ones to face their immediate future realities and contribute to the development of the community, Western education seems far from equipping Africans to understand themselves and their surroundings. Grounded in the African Renaissance, this paper explores African indigenous education in a bid to draw lessons from it. To achieve this, a conceptual paper is framed from a review of literature on Google scholar, DHET accredited journals, Scopus, and other relevant credited sources. The paper does not seek to undermine the importance and value of Western education in the curriculum but advocates for the adoption of indigenous education to bring positive impact to African societies. Collaborative efforts are recommended for the revival, adoption, and continuation of indigenous education without looking at it as inferior.

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Section: African Indigenous Education (Aie)mentioning

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Integrating African Indigenous Education in the Curriculum: A Learning Curve for South Africa

Kugara,

Mdhluli

2023

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“…Beyond these aphorisms, much has been written about missions and colonialism in different parts of the world, but comparatively little on mission education. Clayton Mackenzie (1993) provides a useful summary of the positions taken in the literature on this topic, including his own judgment:…”

Section: Missionaries and Schoolingmentioning

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Decolonising Schools in South Africa

Christie¹

2020

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This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa.It examines the 'on the ground' history of colonialism from the vantage point of a small town in the Karoo region, showing how patterns of possession and dispossession have played out in the municipality and schools. Using the strong political and ontological critique of decoloniality theories, the book demonstrates the ways in which government interventions over many years have allowed colonial relations and the construction of racialised differences to linger in new forms, including unequal access to schooling. Written in an accessible style, the book considers how the dream of decolonial schooling might be realised, from the vantage point of research on the margins. This Karoo region also offers an interesting case study as the site where the world's largest radio telescope was recently located and highlights the contrasting logics of international 'big science' and local development needs. This book will be of interest to academics and scholars in the education field as well as to social geographers, sociologists, human geographers, historians, and policy makers.

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“…Colonialism and Christian missionary work are often considered as coterminous in much of the research literature (MacKenzie, 1993;Pearce, 2006;Porter, 2008;Evans, 2008;White, 2010;Ball, 2011) including the classic work of comparative education scholars such as Carnoy's (1974) Education as Cultural Imperialism and Altbach and Kelly's (1978) Education and Colonialism. However, noted postcolonial literary critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1994), argued that within the Indian context missionary education was rather empowering for the underprivileged socially marginalized people.…”

Section: Dehegemonized Christian Missionary Schoolingmentioning

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Nelson Mandela

2017

Comparative and International Education

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ScopeComparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices aims to provide a comprehensive range of titles, making available to readers work from across the comparative and international education research community. Authors will represent as broad a range of voices as possible, from geographic, cultural and ideological standpoints. The editors are making a conscious effort to disseminate the work of newer scholars as well as that of well-established writers. The series includes authored books and edited works focusing upon current issues and controversies in a field that is undergoing changes as profound as the geopolitical and economic forces that are reshaping our worlds. The series aims to provide books which present new work, in which the range of methodologies associated with comparative education and international education are both exemplified and opened up for debate. As the series develops, it is intended that new writers from settings and locations not frequently part of the English language discourse will find a place in the list.A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.ISBN: 978-94-6300-906-5 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-907-2 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-908-9 (e-book)Published by: Sense Publishers,

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Demythologising the Missionaries: a reassessment of the functions and relationships of Christian missionary education under colonialism

Cited by 20 publications

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Integrating African Indigenous Education in the Curriculum: A Learning Curve for South Africa

Integrating African Indigenous Education in the Curriculum: A Learning Curve for South Africa

Decolonising Schools in South Africa

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