French colonial education : essays on Vietnam and West Africa

Eleven reprinted articles examine the education systems in the two French colonies during the period 1918 to 1938, the height of French colonialism. Among the topics are the myth of educational planning in The Indochinese University in 1906 to 1938, schooling and national integration in interwar Vietnam, schooling in interwar French West Africa as learning to be marginal, the development of African history in French West Africa, and the presentation of indigenous society in the schools of French West Africa and Indochina. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)