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Title:Education in the Shadow of the State: Private Elementary Schools in Tunisia
Author:Kinsey, David C.
Year:1967
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:14
Issue:2
Period:April
Pages:22-24
Language:English
Geographic term:Tunisia
Subjects:private education
Politics and Government
Education and Oral Traditions
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4184761
Abstract:The traditional form of education in North Africa was that given by a religious teacher (m'dib, faqih, fiqi) in the elementary Quranic school (kuttab, m'sid). Practically the kuttab was a private institution without supervision. After the establishment of the French Protectorate the kuttabs remained untouched but modern primary education under government supervision was introduced: the French primary school and the Franco-Arab school. After 1907 Tunisian Muslims created the 'modern Quranic school', a private institution. After 1944 in return for accepting state supervision the government paid the salaries of the teachers of the modern kuttabs. At the end of the Protectorate 25% of the Muslim children visited the modern, state supervised, kuttabs, but a significant contingent of the Muslims sent their children to private modernized or traditional kuttabs. This prolonged socio-cultural division in Tunisian society became one of the problems to be solved by independent Tunisia. The article deals with the educational reform of 1958, describes its implications and the situation of education at present. Notes.
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