Benefits Bestowed?

This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with: _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The myths and visions of imperialism; _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared; _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The use of education as a means of disseminating and reinforcing imperial images;_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The changing concept of imperialism as reflected in the emphases of educational literature_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The different perceptions of imperialism in the various social and ethnic strata of metropolitan and overseas communities and education systems_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The assimiliation, adaptation and rejection of metropolitan educational models_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The issue of imperial education as enlightenment, hegemony and control. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ The book features chapters by educationalists, historians and sociologists on education as a cornerstone in the construction of imperial control.