Benefits Bestowed?

<p>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: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>The myths and visions of imperialism; </li> <p> </p> <li>The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes declared and undeclared; </li> <p> </p> <li>The use of education as a means of disseminating and reinforcing imperial images;</li> <p> </p> <li>The changing concept of imperialism as reflected in the emphases of educational literature</li> <p> </p> <li>The different perceptions of imperialism in the various social and ethnic strata of metropolitan and overseas communities and education systems</li> <p> </p> <li>The assimiliation adaptation and rejection of metropolitan educational models</li> <p> </p> <li>The issue of imperial education as enlightenment hegemony and control. </li> </ul><p>The book features chapters by educationalists historians and sociologists on education as a cornerstone in the construction of imperial control.</p>