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Title: | A Strategy for Power: Commissions of Inquiry into Education and Government Control in Colonial Zimbabwe |
Author: | Mungazi, Dickson A. |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 267-285 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism colonial policy indigenous peoples educational policy Education and Oral Traditions History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/220034 |
Abstract: | Between 1908 and 1974, the colonial government of Zimbabwe appointed commissions to investigate some problems in education and submit their reports, presumably to enable it to design policies which could help in designing an adequate educational policy for national development. But a study of what came out of the reports of these commissions leads to a different conclusion, and that is, that the government used these reports to enhance its power to control, not only education, but also society itself. This study shows that the colonial government used the reports of these commissions as a strategy to enhance its legislative and political power to control the development of Africans and their access to education, employment, housing, health services, access to land, and voting rights. Its main conclusion is that the government approached the problems of education with the same basic discriminatory assumptions which informed every part of the thinking process among government officials. The reports of the commissions of inquiry into education also played a significant role in developing the Church-State conflict. Notes, ref. |