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The Cult of Order: In Search of Underlying Patterns of the Colonial and Neo-Colonial "Grammar of Educationalisation" in the Belgian Congo. Exported School Rituals and Routines?
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Van Ruyskensvelde, Sarah; Hulstaert, Karen; Depaepe, Marc – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2017
An analysis of the history of primary education in Belgium by Depaepe et al. in 2000 has demonstrated how the idea of "order" structured classroom reality in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This "order" is not only visible in the internal organisation of schooling (e.g. division into year classes, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Grammar
Demythologising the Educational Past: An Attempt to Assess the "Power of Education" in the Congo (DRC) with a Nod to the History of Interwar Pedagogy in Catholic Flanders
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Depaepe, Marc; Hulstaert, Karen – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2015
This keynote consists of two parts. The first part offers some general observations from the past related to the power (and eventual powerlessness) of education. The aim is to create a framework with which the specific case, discussed in the second part, must be interpreted. Furthermore, it is emphasised that almost every pedagogical intervention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Empowerment, Catholic Schools