Purposes and Goals of Colonial Education Projects in Africa, Philippines, and Puerto Rico

Reading Summaries: Colonial Education Projects
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Reading Summaries: Colonial education projects
During the era of colonization, European powers set up education projects and policies that would later define the face and history of the colonies. Different scholars have raised different arguments on the objective of education policies and projects in the colonies. In this week’s reading, I focused on Bob White’s article and Julian Go’s article, both of which discuss the colonial educational projects. This paper is a summary of my findings from the two articles and my view of how they address the topic of education in the colonies.
According to White (1996, p. 3), French and British educational policies in Africa ignored the traditional forms of education that promoted the cognitive and physical development of the child. White explains that traditional education in Africa took the form of story-telling for the development of cognitive skills and physical activities for physical development, even though there were no writing activities. I think that White’s argument is in favor of traditional forms of education, especially when he argues that learning in a community setting had a significant impact on the child. The child belonged to the community and every adult in the com...