The Political Coherence of Educational Incoherence: The Consequences of Educational Specialization in a Southern Moroccan Community

Autor/in	Boum, Aomar
Titel	The Political Coherence of Educational Incoherence: The Consequences of Educational Specialization in a Southern Moroccan Community
Quelle	In: Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 39 (2008) 2, S.205-223 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-7761
DOI	10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00016.x
Schlagwörter	Islamic Culture; Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Specialization; Cultural Background; Rural Education; Educational Anthropology; Educational History; College Students; Educational Policy; Social Bias; Ideology; Politics of Education; Religious Education; Preschool Children; Rural Urban Differences; Developing Nations; Foreign Policy; Morocco + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Islam; Kultur; Ethnografie; Ausland; Arbeitsteilige Spezialisierung; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Pädagogische Anthropologie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Collegestudent; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ideologie; Educational policy; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Außenpolitik; Marokko
Abstract	This article is based on an ethnographic study I conducted in southern Morocco during 2004. I explore the historical, ideological, and cultural background behind educational specialization among Moroccan university students. I describe how French colonial educational policies and postindependence Moroccan national schooling ideologies have created a national system of double standards that: (1) privileges French-educated urban middle- and upper-class students, (2) emphasizes the Arabization of the national education system, and (3) discriminates against Arabized, largely rural students, which have exacerbated regional educational and socioeconomic inequalities. I finally contend that educational specialization in noncompetitive degrees such as Arabic language and literature, Islamic studies, geography, and general law is the result of an ideological matrix I have termed "political coherence of educational incoherence." Political coherence of educational incoherence naturalizes the reliance of certain disfranchised regional groups on a traditional preschool Islamic education that is largely based on memorization and inefficient pedagogy and is unsuitable for the modern educational requirements. (As Provided).
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