아프리카 식민지학교 교육과 정치학 ―응구기 와 시옹오의 『샛강』을 중심으로
Education and Politics of Colonial Schools in Africa: A Study of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The River Between
1
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This article explores the political aftermath of education that manifested in European colonial schools in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The River Between. Colonial education was predominantly about European culture and English language training to create colonial masters and workers. European governments realized that they gained strength over colonized nations not only through physical control but also mental control which was accomplished by way of the colonial education system. While they created African loyalists who were indoctrinated to favor the imperialists, Africans began to desire to learn all the wisdom and the secrets of them. But the truth of colonial education for political concepts was indirectly governed colonization and aimed to obliterate Africans’ own beliefs. In fact, African children who encountered European reforms in schools were experiencing the world as defined Euro-Centric culture and history experiences as a hostile incomprehensible force. So Ngũgĩ indeed insists that Gikuyu independent schools politically played a considerable role in the people’s fight against all the mental shackles used to maintain the exploitation, subjugation, and domination. Ideally for the Kenyan people, effective education and political activism, instead of being antagonists in colonial schools, become partners in independent schools.
Abstract
This article explores the political aftermath of education that manifested in European colonial schools in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The River Between. Colonial education was predominantly about European culture and English language training to create colonial masters and workers. European governments realized that they gained strength over colonized nations not only through physical control but also mental control which was accomplished by way of the colonial education system. While they created African loyalists who were indoctrinated to favor the imperialists, Africans began to desire to learn all the wisdom and the secrets of them. But the truth of colonial education for political concepts was indirectly governed colonization and aimed to obliterate Africans’ own beliefs. In fact, African children who encountered European reforms in schools were experiencing the world as defined Euro-Centric culture and history experiences as a hostile incomprehensible force. So Ngũgĩ indeed insists that Gikuyu independent schools politically played a considerable role in the people’s fight against all the mental shackles used to maintain the exploitation, subjugation, and domination. Ideally for the Kenyan people, effective education and political activism, instead of being antagonists in colonial schools, become partners in independent schools.
참고문헌 (20)
- Amoko, Apollo O., "The Resemblance of Colonial Mimicry : A Revisionary Reading of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River between", Research in African Literatures, 36(1), pp.34~50 (2005)
- Biko, Steve, "I Write What I Like" (1972), Heinemann
- Chun, Kwang Ho, "Africa : A Region Of Never Ending Conflict" (2014), Chonbuk National UP
- Cogneau, Denis, "Colonisation, School And Development In Africa: An Empirical Analysis", Document de travail DIAL, 2003
- Cook, David, "Ngugi wa Thiong’o: An Exploration of his Writings" (1997), Heinemann
- Diouf, Christophe Sékène, "The Cultural Resistance to Missionary Schools in Kenya: A Study of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s The River Between and A Grain Of Wheat", The Journal of Pan African Studies, 7(7), pp.26~35 (2014)
- Emenyonu, Patricia Thornton, "Literacy and Education in Kenya", LWATI : A Journal of Contemporary Research, 3, pp.24~40 (2006)
- Fanon, Frantz, "Black Skin, White Masks" (1986), Pluto P
- Gikandi, Simon, "Ngugi wa Thiong’o : Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature" (2000), Cambridge UP
- Mungai, Boniface, "Dialogue On African Philosophy And Development" (2022)
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, "Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary" (1981), Heinemann
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, "Decolonising the mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature" (1986), James Currey
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, "Education For A National Culture", Forward, 4(2-3), pp.20~34 (1982)
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, "Moving the center : The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms" (1993), James Currey
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, "The River Between" (1965), Heinemann
- Ngugi wa Thio, "The Trial of Dedan Kimathi" (1976), Heinemann
- Noddings, Nel, "Philosophy of education" (1995), Westview P
- Sicherman, Carol, "Ngugi’s Colonial Education: The Subversion of the African Mind", African Studies Review (1995)
- Wang, Eunchull, "Transformation of Ngugi’s Novel, and That Meanings: About the Long journey for Decolonsing the Mind", Weagukmunhak, 50, pp.263~285 (1997)
- Westermann, Diedrich, "The African Today" (2020), Routledge