Colonial Education
The Objectives of Colonial Education
Analyse the objectives of colonial education
The aim of establishing these social services was to
consolidate and facilitate colonisation of Africa. That means they were built
to favour the colonial government in power.
Starting from the 20thcentury,colonial
governments established a number of social services in Africa. Colonial
economy. Examples of these colonial social services were:
1. Colonial
education
2. Transport
and communication
3. Recreational
services
4. Water
and electricity
5. Health
services
The Features of Colonial Education
Analyse the features of colonial education
This was a type of formal education that was introduced
by Europeans in Africa. This education was introduced to benefit the colonial
government and not Africans. It went together with the establishment of schools
high economic gain areas such as crop production areas.
Features of colonial education
1. Colonial
education has a pyramid shape quality. The number of students who started at
lower levels reduced as they went to higher levels.
2. Schools
were built in areas with economic importance, such as the Kenyan highlands
which were a prime are for coffee production.
3. Colonial
education was discriminative in nature e.g. there were Asian schools, European
schools and others for Africans.
4. Colonial
education was provided to the sons of African chiefs e.g. sons of Jumbes and
few daughters obtained this type of education.
5. Schools
were built in urban areas and not rural one because that is where most settlers
were.
6. Education
was basically about European culture e.g. training involved the use of foreign
languages such as English and French.
Role of colonial education
The role of colonial education are as follows:
1. To
train Africans so they may be used as administrators for lowest posts e.g.
messengers and clerks.
2. Colonial
education was introduced to train the sons and daughters of European colonial
masters together with Asians.
3. To
produce African puppets who were brainwashed to favour the colonial government.
The Impact of Colonial Education on African Societies
Assess the impact of colonial education on African
societies
Effects of colonial education
1. It
produced educated elites who organised their fellow Africans to fight for
independence e.g. J.K Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah.
2. Colonial
education killed Africans' skills at large, these skills remained in theory.
3. It
produced classes between the educated and those who were not educated
4. Colonial
education led to the destruction of the African culture e.g. on dressing and
eating.
5. Africans
began to desire 'White' jobs, education was aimed to make one employable.
Colonial Health Services
The Objectives of Colonial
Health Services
Analyse the objectives of
colonial health services
The aim of establishing
these social services was to consolidate and facilitate colonization of Africa.
That means they were built to favour the colonial government in power).
Colonial health services
were established in the colonial state, to serve colonial administrators,
missionaries and traders as their primary aim. Also some Africans were served
by the colonial healthy service as to maintain the minimum healthy standard of
Africa, to continue providing the highly needed labor force to the colonial
productions.
Provision of Water and Housing Services during the Colonial Era
The Motive for the
Provision of Colonial Water and Housing Services
Explain the motive for the
provision of colonial water and housing services
Colonial government started
to introduce these services to those areas with settlers or colonial officials.
The major role of
introducing these services was to attract the coming Europeans in Africa.
During the colonialism, the
Europeans gave priority to their comfort in terms of provision of water and
housing services. The provision of water and housing during that era was guided
by the various rationale, for instance, it was meant to encourage the European
settlement in the colonies, it was distributed depending on the economic
importance of an area, also it provided based on racial bases.
The Distribution Pattern of
Water and Housing Services
Analyse the distribution
pattern of water and housing services
Characteristics of water
and housing services
· Offered
on the basis of race,
· unevenly
distributed (depended on the economic value of an area),
· areas
for labourers had no housing of water services which were established by colonialists,
· based
on religious grounds (missionary areas had better water)
The Impact of the Provision
of Colonial Water and Housing Services on African Societies
Assess the impact of the
provision of colonial water and housing services on African societies
Impact of water and housing
services included:
· Reinforced
racial classes in colonies,
· areas
without raw materials or colonialists were marginalized and denied services,
· created regional imbalances
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