Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan

by Malini Johar Schueller

Book Overview

The creation of a new school system in the Philippines in 1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior, following its politics of violence with benevolent recuperation. The pedagogy of recovery-in which schooling was central and natives were forced to accept empire through education-might have shown how Americans could be good occupiers, but it also created...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439918562
• ISBN13: 9781439918562
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"